Re: adding new devices to libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:28:11AM +1300, Sean Irvine wrote:
> (a) Modify pcap-linux.c to include support for our
>     device. This would mean it would be possible to
>     simultaneously use our device and eth0. However,
>     there will be a performance penalty deciding
>     which device is to be read from each packet.

BTW, the decision need be made only once per "pcap_read()" call, so if
if multiple packets are read from the device in one read, the decision
need be made only once per read from the device (although on Linux only
one packet is currently read from the socket, so it'd be made once per
packet when capturing from a network interface device).
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