At 01:20 AM 1/13/00 , Darren Reed wrote:
>If I run tcpdump on an interface and then stop it and leave it there for
>an hour or two, will this have an adverse effect on mbufs ?

It shouldn't.  bpf will stop collecting data after soon as
a users buffers reach a limit.
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