Re: [tcpdump-workers] some questions about TPACKET3

2020-06-28 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El dom., 28 jun. 2020 a las 18:02, Michael Richardson () escribió: > > > Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers wrote: > >> For a contract, I am trying to improve the write performance by using > >> async I/O. {I also need to associate re

Re: [tcpdump-workers] some questions about TPACKET3

2020-06-28 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El sáb., 27 jun. 2020 a las 23:56, Michael Richardson () escribió: > > > Mario, can you confirm my understanding here. > Hi Michael. > In TPACKET3 mode, there are (tp_block_nr) pools of memory. > The beginning of each block is tp_block_size in size, which can > be large numbe

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-04-02 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- OK, it seems fair. Besides, I just checked the code for the oldest long-term release from kernel.org, a 3.16 one, and it doesn't contain the fix, and I think it should be supported. --- End Message --- ___ tcpdump-workers mailing lis

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-04-01 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- OK, follow up. I haven't yet been able to test it, which is why I've been delaying writing about this, but these two commits[0][1], which according to these threads[2][3] are the ones fixing the timeout issue, have been applied to CentOS 7 default kernel, 3.10.0-1062.el7. It c

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El sáb., 21 mar. 2020 18:15, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers < tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org> escribió: > 1) has the slight disadvantage that the name for the team suggests it's > for pcapng only; it appears that teams can be renamed: > > > https://help.github.com/en/githu

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-03-10 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- Hi again. I'm not sure I'm reading it right (thus I ask here), but is this[0] the fixing commit? If it is, I think it's applied on CentOS 7, and since it's basically a free rebuild of RHEL, I'd expect it to be fixed there, too. I'll send a few links later so you can check it o

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-03-10 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El mar., 10 mar. 2020 15:26, Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers < tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org> escribió: > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Mario Rugiero > To: Michael Richardson > Cc: tcpdump-workers > Bcc: >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-03-10 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El mar., 10 mar. 2020 15:07, Michael Richardson escribió: > > Mario Rugiero wrote: > >> I am trying to process many pull requests for libpcap and tcpdump, > get some > >> things closed. I don't think that there is a pull request from you > yet. > >> Am I wrong?

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2020-03-02 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El lun., 2 mar. 2020 a las 14:31, Michael Richardson () escribió: > I am trying to process many pull requests for libpcap and tcpdump, get some > things closed. I don't think that there is a pull request from you yet. > Am I wrong? > Some related PRs got merged already. My Gi

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2019-10-22 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El mar., 22 oct. 2019 a las 18:01, Guy Harris () escribió: > > If RHEL 6 matters, oldest longterm from kernel.org only doesn't work, because > RHEL 6 runs 2.6.32, according to > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078 > > so if we're going to support only the oldest

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2019-10-22 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El mar., 22 oct. 2019 a las 16:02, Guy Harris () escribió: > I.e., the goal for libpcap support on Linux should be something such as > > it should work on min({kernel for oldest supported enterprise > distribution}, {oldest "longterm maintenance" kernel release from k

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2019-10-22 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El mar., 22 oct. 2019 a las 15:08, Guy Harris () escribió: > > On Oct 21, 2019, at 5:59 PM, Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers > wrote: > > - TPACKET_V2 stays for immediate-mode support. > > - As a side-effect, RHEL6 remains supported. > > So RHE

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Legacy Linux kernel support

2019-10-21 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- I think it's time to summarize, and to propose one last idea. I'm following the thread again to try and be as accurate as possible, but of course any objections are welcomed. - The oldest officially supported kernel is 3.16, as this is the oldest LTS according to kernel.org.