From 5cbf42acb616a34d5e41f03b881f8552e08855a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Martin Sehnoutka <msehnout@redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 12:31:21 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] Make the default capture buffer bigger.

---

 capture_opts.h             | 2 +-

 doc/dumpcap.pod            | 4 ++--

 doc/tshark.pod             | 4 ++--

 doc/wireshark.pod.template | 4 ++--

 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/capture_opts.h b/capture_opts.h

index c2f41d2..29a7132 100644

--- a/capture_opts.h

+++ b/capture_opts.h

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ extern void

 collect_ifaces(capture_options *capture_opts);

 /* Default capture buffer size in Mbytes. */

-#define DEFAULT_CAPTURE_BUFFER_SIZE 2

+#define DEFAULT_CAPTURE_BUFFER_SIZE 4

 #ifdef __cplusplus

 }

diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod

index e1dc293..090cd53 100644

--- a/doc/dumpcap.pod

+++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod

@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ of size one megabyte each.

 =item -B  E<lt>capture buffer sizeE<gt>

-Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 2 MiB).  This is used by

+Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 4 MiB).  This is used by

 the capture driver to buffer packet data until that data can be written

 to disk.  If you encounter packet drops while capturing, try to increase

 this size.  Note that, while B<Dumpcap> attempts to set the buffer size

-to 2 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

+to 4 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

 system or interface on which you're capturing might silently limit the

 capture buffer size to a lower value or raise it to a higher value.

diff --git a/doc/tshark.pod b/doc/tshark.pod

index ba06225..38c43dd 100644

--- a/doc/tshark.pod

+++ b/doc/tshark.pod

@@ -214,11 +214,11 @@ of size one megabyte each.

 =item -B  E<lt>capture buffer sizeE<gt>

-Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 2 MiB).  This is used by

+Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 4 MiB).  This is used by

 the capture driver to buffer packet data until that data can be written

 to disk.  If you encounter packet drops while capturing, try to increase

 this size.  Note that, while B<Tshark> attempts to set the buffer size

-to 2 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

+to 4 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

 system or interface on which you're capturing might silently limit the

 capture buffer size to a lower value or raise it to a higher value.

diff --git a/doc/wireshark.pod.template b/doc/wireshark.pod.template

index 130e7ef..1e9681f 100644

--- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template

+++ b/doc/wireshark.pod.template

@@ -280,11 +280,11 @@ of size one megabyte each.

 =item -B  E<lt>capture buffer sizeE<gt>

-Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 2 MiB).  This is used by

+Set capture buffer size (in MiB, default is 4 MiB).  This is used by

 the capture driver to buffer packet data until that data can be written

 to disk.  If you encounter packet drops while capturing, try to increase

 this size.  Note that, while B<Wireshark> attempts to set the buffer size

-to 2 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

+to 4 MiB by default, and can be told to set it to a larger value, the

 system or interface on which you're capturing might silently limit the

 capture buffer size to a lower value or raise it to a higher value.

-- 

2.9.3