Re: Problems with two threads capturing on

[Johan Mazel <johan.mazel () gmail com>]

2009/2/22 Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>

> On Feb 22, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Johan Mazel wrote:
>
>  What happens if you run one instance of tcpdump capturing on wlan0 and
> > > another instance capturing on eth0?  Do they both report packets being
> > > captured, or does just the one capturing on wlan0 report packets?
> >
> > Yes, I just checked.
>
> "Yes" they both report packets being captured (in which case there's
> probably either a problem with your program or with libpcap), or "yes" only
> the one caputring on wlan0 reports packets (in which case it's probably a
> problem with the way either the Linux wireless framework or your wireless
> driver works)?

I meant: yes they both capture packets at the same time.

But, I already tried something similar since I tried a few times to do the
same with processes and they were working (both processes (on eth0 and
wlan0) were capturing packets).

Thnaks for the answers.

Johan
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