On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:51:19AM +1100, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
[...]
> What I am really worried about is kernel may start dropping the packets after
> few hours/days and/or tcpdump/kernel may not be able to keep up with the
> network load due to IO load on the hard drives, memory pressure etc..
find a libpcap using CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP, and you will probably forget about
drops IMHO
if you do find it, please let me now
I'm currently using pandora's monitor modified libpcap.... GREAT
I think that Linux is the only OS that provides user space buffers to packet
capture... am I wrong?
Maybe this is an offtopic on this mailing list...
...so this is my first and last mail about it here.
Ulisses
Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true
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