Re: [tcpdump-workers] Regarding PCAP versions

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Chandru S wrote: I was able to find the CHANGES file but my only concern is that it gives us the difference between subsequent releases .I need a document which can provide all the changes from my PCAP version to the LATEST.Is there any document in that patter

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Regarding PCAP versions

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Turner
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Chandru S wrote: > Hi Harris, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I was able to find  the CHANGES file but my only concern is that it gives us > the difference between subsequent releases .I need a document which can > provide all the changes from my PCAP version to the L

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Regarding PCAP versions

2009-07-14 Thread Chandru S
Hi Harris, Thanks for the reply. I was able to find the CHANGES file but my only concern is that it gives us the difference between subsequent releases .I need a document which can provide all the changes from my PCAP version to the LATEST.Is there any document in that pattern? Chandru S On We

[tcpdump-workers] DLT type requested for OpenSolaris IPNET header

2009-07-14 Thread Darren Reed
I'd like to request a DLT type for the "ipnet device" on OpenSolaris. A description of the packet header can be found here: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/232/commitment.materials/bpf-psarc.txt and the relevant structure name is "dl_ipnetinfo". This structure will be prepended t

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Exposing linux libpcap ring buffer usage information

2009-07-14 Thread Dustin Spicuzza
Guy Harris wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: > >> I'd like to get information on how much of the mmap'ed ring buffer is >> being used so that I can deal with dropped packets more effectively. I >> was going to add a patch for this, but its not clear to me the best way

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Exposing linux libpcap ring buffer usage information

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: I'd like to get information on how much of the mmap'ed ring buffer is being used so that I can deal with dropped packets more effectively. I was going to add a patch for this, but its not clear to me the best way to expose the information.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Regarding PCAP versions

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Chandru S wrote: 1)When I use pcap funcions for a single time it is working fine.But when we run a batch of traffic testcases for many hours It is dumping(segmentation fault) .Also core files gives us a indication that it happens mostly in PCAP functions such

[tcpdump-workers] Exposing linux libpcap ring buffer usage information

2009-07-14 Thread Dustin Spicuzza
Hey, I'd like to get information on how much of the mmap'ed ring buffer is being used so that I can deal with dropped packets more effectively. I was going to add a patch for this, but its not clear to me the best way to expose the information. I'm tempted to just add an additional call/struct fo