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Diffstat (limited to 'wiretap/wtap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | wiretap/wtap.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/wtap.h b/wiretap/wtap.h index ee68a8eabe..ca58afb9c9 100644 --- a/wiretap/wtap.h +++ b/wiretap/wtap.h @@ -375,11 +375,15 @@ extern "C" { /* if you add to the above, update wtap_tsprec_string() */ /* - * Maximum packet size we'll support. - * 262144 is the largest snapshot length that libpcap supports, so we - * use that. - */ -#define WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE 262144 + * We support one maximum packet size for most link-layer header types + * and another for D-Bus, because the maximum packet size for D-Bus + * is 128MB, and that's a lot bigger than the 256KB that we use elsewhere. + * We don't want to write out files that specify a maximum packet size of + * 128MB if we don't have to, as software reading those files might + * allocate a buffer much larger than necessary, wasting memory. + */ +#define WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE_STANDARD 262144 +#define WTAP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE_DBUS (128*1024*1024) /* * "Pseudo-headers" are used to supply to the clients of wiretap |