Re: [tcpdump-workers] advice for heavy traffic capturing

2004-08-07 Thread Fulvio Risso
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren Reed > Sent: sabato 7 agosto 2004 13.19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] advice for heavy traffic capturing > > > In some email I received from Motonori Shindo, sie wrote: >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] mac os x buffering packets?

2004-08-07 Thread Carter Bullard
With some investigation, I found a solution, so there may need to be a libpcap code modification for mac os x? In order to get around my problem I had to call: ioctl(pcap_fileno(fd, BIOCIMMEDIATE, &v) To get a BIOCIMMEDIATE definition, I needed the real net/bpf.h, and because that uses _IOW, I

[tcpdump-workers] mac os x buffering packets?

2004-08-07 Thread Carter Bullard
Gentle people, Apologies if this a known problem. On mac os x 10.3.4, using libpcap-0.8.3, opening pcap with pcap_open_live(dev, 96, 1, 1000, errbuf) and reading packets with pcap_loop (pd, 1, callback, user), packets are queued until some magic number (looks to be 200) of packets is reache

Re: [tcpdump-workers] advice for heavy traffic capturing

2004-08-07 Thread Darren Reed
In some email I received from Motonori Shindo, sie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm involved in a project to do some network traffic analysis. One of > the goals of this project is to identify an equipment that is > supposedly dropping packets. My idea to achieve this goal is to > capture traffic by tcpdump a

[tcpdump-workers] Nightly tar-balls

2004-08-07 Thread Gisle Vanem
http://www.tcpdump.org/daily/tcpdump-current.tar.gz of a few minutes ago contains files from 22 July. i.e. the direcory prefix is "tcpdump-2004.07.22". Isn't the current file built by a cron job irrespective of any files having been changed or not? Or has crond gone down or taken summer-holida