Re: [tcpdump-workers] Rx packets are not captured on physical interface when bonded.

On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Lakshmana Reddy wrote: I walked through the tcpdump/pcap code to see what going on.. so far my understanding is that the pcap_loop(), to capture the packets on the given device invokes the recvfrom() sys call to get the raw packets from the kernel and parses th

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Rx packets are not captured on physical

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Lakshmana Reddy wrote: [snip] > I walked through the tcpdump/pcap code to see what going on.. so far my > understanding is that the pcap_loop(), to capture the packets on the given > device invokes the recvfrom() sys call to get the raw packets from the > kernel

[tcpdump-workers] Rx packets are not captured on physical interface when bonded.

Hi, I'm new to tcpdump, so please bear with any obvious questions. I am trying to capture packets on bonding interface "veth0" in Linux 2.6.23. I could capture the packets on both the direction on "veth0" (virtual/bonded) interface but at the physical interface under this bonded interface ONLY tr