Re: Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

> I would choose threads but my "boss" prefers processes; he said computation
> parallelizing mechanism (in his cluster) don't work well with threads as it
> does with processes; i don't know if is true, now i'll implement my software
> with processes and then with posix threads; so i'll "taste" performance
> differences.

_Clusters_?!?  That is a rather important detail...

Somehow I seriously doubt that a libpcap application can span nodes in a 
computational cluster.  At least not the stuff doing the promiscuous mode bits.

rick jones
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