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-rw-r--r--capture_opts.c2
-rw-r--r--capture_sync.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/capture_opts.c b/capture_opts.c
index a34317da82..6ab046b41b 100644
--- a/capture_opts.c
+++ b/capture_opts.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ capture_opts_init(capture_options *capture_opts, void *cf)
capture_opts->default_options.linktype = -1;
capture_opts->default_options.promisc_mode = TRUE;
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(HAVE_PCAP_CREATE)
- capture_opts->default_options.buffer_size = 1; /* 1 MB */
+ capture_opts->default_options.buffer_size = 2; /* 2 MB, In pcap-linux.c: by default request 2M for the ring buffer */
#endif
capture_opts->default_options.monitor_mode = FALSE;
#ifdef HAVE_PCAP_REMOTE
diff --git a/capture_sync.c b/capture_sync.c
index 28631adc4d..b1bc13d70d 100644
--- a/capture_sync.c
+++ b/capture_sync.c
@@ -461,7 +461,8 @@ sync_pipe_start(capture_options *capture_opts) {
}
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(HAVE_PCAP_CREATE)
- if (interface_opts.buffer_size != 1) {
+ /* In pcap-linux.c: by default request 2M for the ring buffer */
+ if (interface_opts.buffer_size != 2) {
argv = sync_pipe_add_arg(argv, &argc, "-B");
g_snprintf(buffer_size, ARGV_NUMBER_LEN, "%d", interface_opts.buffer_size);
argv = sync_pipe_add_arg(argv, &argc, buffer_size);