Re: Adding capture engine questions

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Saikiran Madugula wrote:

> I am  a newbie too but I have following suggestions, although it always 
> tough
> to suggest anything with out looking at source code. Did you make the 
> following changes to handle your interface correctly ?
> pcap_lookup net, pcap_open_live and xxx_platform_finddevs.
> Have you verified with tcpdump etc, do you get the same behaviour ?

He probably doesn't.  It turned out to be the result of a botch in 
Wireshark, causing pcap_findalldevs() to be called once a second or so, 
which is a Very Bad Idea, given that it not only fetches the complete 
interface configuration, it tries to open each interface it finds, in 
order to determine whether you *can* capture on it.
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