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Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcap_next_ex() vs pcap_loop()

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter_at_nospam>
Date: Fri Mar 05 2010 - 13:58:08 GMT
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>

Hi,

Although Wireshark uses libpcap, these are libpcap questions, not
Wireshark questions.
You should post them to the right forum, which in this case is
tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org.

Thanks,
Jaap

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:54:44 +0200, Selçuk Cevher <cevhers@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As far as I know, in general, pcap_loop() function of libpcap library is
> preferred over pcap_next_ex() function.
>
> Is it related to some kind of fact that pcap_loop() is more
> robust/reliable/efficient ?
>
> Thanks.
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