Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to tell if application is handling packets

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: > >> Ahh, so ps_drop might work for this. >> >> Users are reporting issues on Windows with the latest winpcap release >> but I do a lot of my testing under Linux, Ubuntu 9.10, 2.6.31 x64. I'd >>

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to tell if application is handling packets

2009-12-26 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 26, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: > Ahh, so ps_drop might work for this. > > Users are reporting issues on Windows with the latest winpcap release > but I do a lot of my testing under Linux, Ubuntu 9.10, 2.6.31 x64. I'd > be doing the drop testing under Linux initially. On Linux i

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to tell if application is handling packets

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Morgan
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: > >> I have a case where it appears that packets are being missed or >> dropped. I wonder if this is due to too much processing being done in >> the pcap_dispatch() handler in my application in

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to tell if application is handling packets too slowly, causing them to be missed?

2009-12-26 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 26, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: > I have a case where it appears that packets are being missed or > dropped. I wonder if this is due to too much processing being done in > the pcap_dispatch() handler in my application in cases where there are > bursts of packets like facebook cha

[tcpdump-workers] How to tell if application is handling packets too slowly, causing them to be missed?

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Morgan
I have a case where it appears that packets are being missed or dropped. I wonder if this is due to too much processing being done in the pcap_dispatch() handler in my application in cases where there are bursts of packets like facebook chat messages or website visits. My question is how to detect