Re: [Wireshark-dev] Disabling idle sleep while a capture is in progress?

2019-07-01 Thread Tomasz Moń
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:44 PM Guy Harris wrote: > If you're doing a long-running capture, 1) don't clamshell your machine in > the middle and 2) leave it plugged in. To avoid surprises on Windows, you might want to schedule the Windows Update restart no earlier than the time by which you are f

[Wireshark-dev] Disabling idle sleep while a capture is in progress?

2019-07-01 Thread Guy Harris
If there's a capture in progress, should Wireshark attempt to prevent the system from sleeping when it's deemed "idle"? 1) The arrival of a packet on an adapter being captured on won't necessarily wake the system up. 2) At least on Windows with Npcap and probably WinPcap, the networking stack