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Improving Passive Packet Capture: Beyond Device Polling

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Description: Passive packet capture is necessary for many activities including network debugging and monitoring. With the advent of fast gigabit networks, packet capture is becoming a problem even on PCs due to the poor performance of popular OSs. The introduction of device polling has improved the capture process quite a bit but not really solved the problem.