4.10 Global Setup
The gobal setup page shows a number of options which apply globally to
ksnuffle.
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Options
The options here enable or disable
- the conversion of IP addresses to host names
- the onversion IP ports to service names
- the display of non-privilegded ports on the snifferconfiguration page
- dropping the local domain name in the packet display
- whether multiple packet detail windows are enabled
Behaviour under heavy loading
Under heavy load, the packet display can use a large amount of CPU time
and may not be able to keep up with incoming packets. There are two
possibilities to deal with this situation:
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Disable the packet display
If none of the display options (time, protocol, etc)
on the configuration page are selected then the packet display is
disabled.
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Pause the packet display
This is controlled by the Pause at and Pause for settings.
If the packet display receives the former number of packets within a
second, then it will pause until the load drops below this value for
the latter number of seconds.
Note that this applies to sniffers but not to replayers.
Some experimentation may be needed to determin the largest value of
Pause at that is reasonable on your machine.
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