Re: setting the initial ring size

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

Abeni Paolo wrote:

> I have some concerns about more the "open a live capture" call[s]: in
> the future it could be useful to set more parameters, so in the long run
> there could be a proliferation of such call. A possible solution would
> be to make the "open a live capture" call extensible, adding a generic
> parameter (like buffer filled with TLV items). Such buffer could be a
> read/write parameter to make it possible notify the called of which
> items has been ignored.

That's exactly what I had in mind (and exactly the reason why I had it 
in mind).

There'd also be an API to ask which parameters a particular adapter 
supports (and possibly which values it supports for those parameters, 
e.g. if one of the parameters is a DLT_ type or an 802.11 channel).
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