[Winpcap-users] Tips for a real-time (low latency) application?

[Ben Greear]

Richard Hansen wrote:

> Based on my imperfect understanding of how WinPcap/libpcap works, I am concerned that the packet capture process will contribute a non-negligible amount of latency.  I would love to know more about the internal workings of WinPcap to see if my concerns are well-founded.  I am early enough in development that I have not yet tested how much latency each component introduces -- I just wanted to be aware of any potential problems before investing a lot of time in development.

I can tell you that at moderate traffic loads (2Mbps bi-directional), I get about 1ms delay
when bridging a packet through a system using winpcap as the packet receiver logic.

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com