Packet Capturing

[Mahammed Faiz Aboalmaali <mohammadfaiz2003 () yahoo com>]

Dear All,
Have a good day,
I have a question about how snort capture the packets using libpcap. From my understanding in libpcap there are two 
function for capturing packets, pcap_loop() and pcap_next_ex(). which one of them used by Snort and why?. and generally 
which one of there function is more preferable (faster) for high speed links ? . Sorry if my question is not reliable.  
by the way, I found these two function in the tutorials of WinPcap, but I think that both, libpcap and winpcap are 
compatible. 
Regards,
Mohammed Faiz Aboalmaaly

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