Re: Building IPv6 code in tcpdump on systems without

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from John Hawkinson, sie wrote:
> Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote on Tue, 20 Jul 2004
> at 23:21:17 -0700 in <20040720232117.E251 () quadrajet sonic net>:
>
> >     1) it defines DEFAULT_SNAPLEN as 96 unconditionally, rather
> >        than, as is done now, as 68 if INET6 isn't defined and as 96
> >        if it is defined;
> >
> > The first seems OK to me, although some might find it a surprise.  You
> > can always use "-s 68" if you want 68 bytes.
>
> Won't this have unfortunate effects on performance (and possibly storage,
> but that's less concerning) for some people in borderline situations?

Why don't you measure it and tell us all exactly how bad the degradation is ?

Darren
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