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From: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 00:14:51 -0800

> As a core libpcap developer, I will at least state that it works a
> *lot* better than v1 and v2 did.  Having buffer slots that can hold
> only one packet is *really* suboptimal for packet capture; having
> buffer slots that can hold multiple packets works a lot better, as
> there's less wasted memory.

No doubt.

> I'll see whether there are any changes that *would* make libpcap's life better.

Thanks.