Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump + pf_ring capture: bogus savefile header

2011-03-08 Thread M. V.
it's the modified version that comes with pf_ring. actually the problem solved. apparently pf_ring before revision 4498 has this problem (on some systems?) which is solved in 4498 or newer revisions (mine was 4494). i upgraded my pf_ring source from svn to latest (4521) and problem solved (alo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump + pf_ring capture: bogus savefile header

2011-03-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 8, 2011, at 1:15 AM, M. V. wrote: > now, when i use tcpdump which is compiled with libpcap-pf_ring to capture > traffic, Is that standard tcpdump, or Luca's modified tcpdump (which is part of the PF_RING stuff)? If it's the standard tcpdump, what happens if you pass it the argument "-s

Re: [tcpdump-workers] typos in man pages

2011-03-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > here is a patch fixing some typos. Thanks. Checked into the trunk and 1.1 branch. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Request for new DLT value for Wireshark

2011-03-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Schemmel, Hans-Christoph wrote: > this is the detailed description of the data format. > > LINKTYPE_MUX27010 OK, I've assigned 236 as LINKTYPE_MUX27010 and DLT_MUX27010. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Where does libpcap get the incoming network

2011-03-08 Thread Jorge Canas
Hi Fabian, thanks for the link to your thesis. That's a well-put together and very informative document. I specially liked figure 2.2 (conceptual diagram of the Linux Socket Filter for incoming packets). In that figure, I see that any packet arriving at the "packet_input_queue" is sent towar

[tcpdump-workers] tcpdump + pf_ring capture: bogus savefile header

2011-03-08 Thread M. V.
hi, in order to boost capturing performance, i installed PF-Ring for libpcap on Debian-6.0 using the link below. i got latest version of pf-ring from svn, and recompiled my intel-card's driver to support pf_ring. i didn't get any error or problem during the process. http://www.ntop.org/blog/?p