[ethereal-users] Shouldn't there be a Performance Hit?

[David Lloyd <lloy0076@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I've just started to use Ethereal primarily to monitor what information
goes in and out of my computer. And I hang around a few "supposedly"
anonymous chat rooms where it's sometimes useful to point out that you
know the other people's IP addreses but that's off topic :-)

I'm running it on a 650MHZ Athlon, a 2.3.99 kernel (optimised for the
Athlon) and 256MB of memory. My ISP is quite slow (they still only have
33.6k modems at the most on the other end). I've actually noticed that
my performance - at least my perception of the machine's performance -
isn't at all downgraded when I'm running Ethereal even though I'm asking
it to update live and resolve DNS when it can. Mind you, I run my own
DNS forwarding / caching server....

Is it just me? I would have thought that running something like Ethereal
would downgrade one's Internet services in terms of perceived speed
considerably...

DL

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