[tcpdump-workers] Re: HP-UX support and portability

2024-03-12 Thread Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- I meant to include an "only" in there :) Wasn't meaning to suggest any heroic efforts should be made. happy benchmarking, rick On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM Guy Harris wrote: > On Mar 12, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers &

[tcpdump-workers] Re: HP-UX support and portability

2024-03-12 Thread Rick Jones via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- If https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Version_history is any indication, there are ~21 months left on HP's (er, sorry, HPE's) own support for HP-UX. happy benchmarking, rick jones On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 1:48 PM Denis Ovsienko wrote: > Hello all. > >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] proposed change: make tcpdump -n and tcpdump -nn behave differently

2018-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
My proverbial two cents is that is changing the semantics of an option, semantics which go back literally decades. New semantics should be associated with new options. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:48 AM Denis Ovsienko wrote: > Hello list. > > At https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/pull/70

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Time to enable GUESS_TSO by default?

2018-04-13 Thread Rick Jones
How does this look? On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:56 PM Michael Richardson wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > > It has been a few years since GUESS_TSO was added. Might it be time > to > > enable it by default? > > send pull request... update documentation :-) > &

[tcpdump-workers] Time to enable GUESS_TSO by default?

2018-04-13 Thread Rick Jones
It has been a few years since GUESS_TSO was added. Might it be time to enable it by default? rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers

Re: [tcpdump-workers] posix_fadvise()

2016-04-19 Thread Rick Jones
pture file. And, for that matter, just about anything generating logfiles... happy benchmarking, rick jones [Note to moderator: I've updated my subscription to my new email and cancelled the post that got moderated.] ___ tcpdump-workers ma

Re: [tcpdump-workers] How to capture the data at transport layer (not on interface)

2015-03-12 Thread Rick Jones
On 03/11/2015 02:30 AM, srinivasarao...@bel.co.in wrote: Hai, How to capture the data at transport layer (not on interface) Apart from nettl in HP-UX, I've not come across an OS/application which enables such a thing. rick jones every extra byte in a message is another microgram o

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Libpcap performance problem

2015-01-28 Thread Rick Jones
packet capture able to keep-up? rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers

Re: [tcpdump-workers] What's the point of "oui Unknown"?

2014-10-22 Thread Rick Jones
On 10/22/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: Rick Jones wrote: >> It seems to me that without more robust support this is just annoying >> noise and, at the very least, the Unknown oui printing should be >> removed. >> >> Thoughts?

Re: [tcpdump-workers] What's the point of "oui Unknown"?

2014-10-22 Thread Rick Jones
On 10/12/2014 01:00 PM, John Hawkinson wrote: It seems to me that without more robust support this is just annoying noise and, at the very least, the Unknown oui printing should be removed. Thoughts? What would removing it do to scripts attempting to parse tcpdump output? rick jones

[tcpdump-workers] Prospects for per-receive queue tracing or perhaps tagging packets with their receive queue for later filtering?

2014-10-20 Thread Rick Jones
IRQ assignments, that probably isn't a good assumption. thoughts? rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers

Re: [tcpdump-workers] ICMP echo reply

2014-07-23 Thread Rick Jones
it took in this case given it is clear it didn't take very long at all? Given the likely symmetry of the path between client and server, were I pressed for an answer, I would probably start by ass-u-me-ing that the time from server to client was 1/2 the total round-trip time. rick jones

Re: [tcpdump-workers] ICMP echo reply

2014-07-23 Thread Rick Jones
lient? Answers to at least some, if not all, those questions will go a long way towards being able to say something about how long it took the ICMP Echo Reply to travel from the server to the client. rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-wo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] "not vlan" filter expression brokencatastrophically!

2013-02-04 Thread Rick Jones
But on the end-system involved in the conversations? Nope. The stateless offloads and their effect on what one sees via packet capture are here to stay. rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Decoding the unencrypted part(s) of SSL/TLS?

2012-12-11 Thread Rick Jones
On 12/11/2012 05:58 AM, Wesley Shields wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:38:29PM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote: "Rick" == Rick Jones writes: Rick> Is there a version of tcpdump in the works which will decode Rick> the unecrypted Rick> portions of an SSL/

[tcpdump-workers] Decoding the unencrypted part(s) of SSL/TLS?

2012-12-10 Thread Rick Jones
Is there a version of tcpdump in the works which will decode the unecrypted portions of an SSL/TLS session? Or do I need to look elsewhere? thanks, rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https

Re: [tcpdump-workers] incorrect tcp checksum on Linux tun interfaces?

2012-12-10 Thread Rick Jones
parately but I suspect it is still functionally correct if that is simply shoved into the TCP checksum field. rick jones ___ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers

[tcpdump-workers] is "not multicast" supposed to include broadcast?

2012-07-10 Thread Rick Jones
s an 802.2 TEST frame) However if I drop "and not multicast" I will see my broadcast frame. Given there is also an alias for broadcast that behaviour seems incorrect - "not multicast" should still show broadcast. Thoughts? This is with 4.1.1 and libpcap 1.1.1. rick jones

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Multiple interface capture and thread safety

2012-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
the transport(s) carrying the flows perhaps even within a single flow (eg a flow of UDP traffic) rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] why I'm capturing packets larger than MTU size

2012-02-23 Thread Rick Jones
. Disabling GRO is done via ethtool -K. LRO too, though go back far enough and it may need to be done at the module parameter level. I don't know if UFO (UDP Fragmentation Offload) is both directions or not, but that too is an ethtool -K thing. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-wor

Re: [tcpdump-workers] twice past the taps, thence out to net?

2011-12-16 Thread Rick Jones
but is that getting a little close? rick jones Sure ! I only pointed out a possible problem, and not gave a full patch, since we also need to change the opposite threshold (when we XON the queue at TX completion) You can see its not even consistent with the minimum for a single TSO frame

Re: [tcpdump-workers] twice past the taps, thence out to net?

2011-12-15 Thread Rick Jones
I suppose mention this behaviour to the Debian maintainer for tcptrace, but is there a writeup to be enhanced for tcpdump? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] twice past the taps, thence out to net?

2011-12-15 Thread Rick Jones
x_count, IGB_MIN_TXD); igb.h:#define IGB_MIN_TXD 80 but is that getting a little close? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] twice past the taps, thence out to net?

2011-12-15 Thread Rick Jones
371) backlog 0b 0p requeues 371 Sure enough: $ tc -s -d qdisc qdisc mq 0: dev eth0 root Sent 2212158799862 bytes 1938268098 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 4975139) backlog 0b 0p requeues 4975139 rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

[tcpdump-workers] twice past the taps, thence out to net?

2011-12-14 Thread Rick Jones
t tap and be captured, find a queue/resource past the tap unavailable, get re-queued above the tap, get captured again when resent" sort of thing. Where in the Linux stack does the tap used by libpcap 1.1.1 reside? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

[tcpdump-workers] trimming bytes from already captured packets

2011-12-09 Thread Rick Jones
unity?" happy benchmarking, rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] questions on -B, performance, mbufs, and

2011-09-28 Thread Rick Jones
rface. 99 times out of 10 the stats reported by ethtool -S are statistics as measured by the NIC itself. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] questions on -B, performance, mbufs, and

2011-09-28 Thread Rick Jones
Would this be the number reported by ifconfig? If, as the name suggests, those are drops reported by the NIC, presumably the value you see being emitted by tcpdump would track rather closely with the stats reported for the interface via ethtool -S rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Suggestion: Pcap-over-IP client support in

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Jones
es of its fowarding of captures... rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] post-commit emailing

2011-09-13 Thread Rick Jones
On 09/13/2011 07:22 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: "Rick" == Rick Jones writes: >> Guy and I were discussing adding post-commit hooks to the repos >> to send out summaries of activities. >> >> Is there an objection if they go to this lis

Re: [tcpdump-workers] post-commit emailing

2011-09-07 Thread Rick Jones
On 09/07/2011 10:02 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: Guy and I were discussing adding post-commit hooks to the repos to send out summaries of activities. Is there an objection if they go to this list? Or do people prefer a new list? I note that the github.com/mcr/{tcpdump,libpcap} is pushed every

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] ifSpeed in sFlow is 64 bits not 32

2011-06-02 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:57 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On May 27, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > The ifSpeed field of a generic interface counter in sFlow is 64 bits. > > The "overlay" definition in print-sflow.c is correct, but the actual >

[tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] ifSpeed in sFlow is 64 bits not 32

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Jones
The ifSpeed field of a generic interface counter in sFlow is 64 bits. The "overlay" definition in print-sflow.c is correct, but the actual extract for printing is using EXTRACT_32BITS rather than EXTRACT_64BITS, which leads to an incorrect report for speed. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap capture performance drop

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 10:39 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On May 27, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > Is this new libpcap going to be guaranteed that the underlying NIC HW > > isn't doing Large Receive Offload, or that the tracepoint in the stack > > is be

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap capture performance drop

2011-05-27 Thread Rick Jones
teed that the underlying NIC HW isn't doing Large Receive Offload, or that the tracepoint in the stack is below any stack's attempt to do Generic Receive Offload? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap capture performance drop

2011-05-23 Thread Rick Jones
f using 1520 to end on a 4 byte boundary and so begin on a 4 byte boundary if these buffers are carved one after the other? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

[tcpdump-workers] first pass at verbose printing of host sFlow PDUs

2011-05-06 Thread Rick Jones
lly sure about is when to do everything on one line and when to split it up... happy benchmarking, rick jones diff --git a/print-sflow.c b/print-sflow.c index f27370a..82c3706 100644 --- a/print-sflow.c +++ b/print-sflow.c @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ static const char rcsid[] _U_ = * */ +#define IPV6_

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-27 Thread Rick Jones
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 15:21 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > Rick, I've committed your pcap file and .out file. > I edited the out file to remove the dates (-t option), and I suggest you > want to generate one file for each -v level. > > It's pretty important for me to have the .pcap and .out f

[tcpdump-workers] output style question

2011-04-15 Thread Rick Jones
;outputPort format==3 %u\n", sample->outputPort); break; case 2: sf_log("outputPort multiple %u\n", sample->outputPort); break; case 1: sf_log("outputPort dropCode %u\n", sample->outputPort); break; case 0: sf_log("outputPort %u\n", sample->outputPort

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] pay attention to the enterprise

2011-04-15 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 10:02 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > Thanks to some traces sent my way by Gavin McCullagh, and a comparison > > against the output of inMon's sflowtool, I can confidently say "Yes > > Virg

[tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] pay attention to the enterprise field of the sflow flow and counter record format

2011-04-14 Thread Rick Jones
lly look at the enterprise field and make sure it is one we recognize. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones diff --git a/print-sflow.c b/print-sflow.c index c508824..f27370a 100644 --- a/print-sflow.c +++ b/print-sflow.c @@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ struct sflow_expanded_flow_raw_t { u_int8_theader_size[4]

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] replacement print-sflow.c to include

2011-04-14 Thread Rick Jones
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 11:35 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > To enable printing of non-expanded samples I've shuffled a bunch of code > > around and created a bunch of smaller routines to more easily support > > prin

[tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] replacement print-sflow.c to include "non-expanded" counter and flow samples

2011-04-13 Thread Rick Jones
e from the 12th. I'm not terribly git-savvy or I could give the various ids... Signed-off-by: Rick Jones rick jones /* * Copyright (c) 1998-2007 The TCPDUMP project * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that: (1) source co

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-12 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:04 -0700, Rick Jones wrote: > Either I fumbled trying the patch or something else has gone amis > because with a freshly cloned tcpdump, and a new set of sflows I get > output like: what has happened is I have switched switches and the switch I'm using is n

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-08 Thread Rick Jones
figured for some flow samples while I was running a single instance of netperf through it. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-05 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 19:06 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > The former is easy enough - attached is a compressed pcap file with 30 > > captured PDUs which can be used for testing. They are all just counter > > samples, t

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-05 Thread Rick Jones
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 18:49 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > As for the latter, I don't have some of the pre-reqs installed: > > > > raj@tardy:~/tcpdump$ make check > > uudecode --help || (echo "No u

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Jones
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 20:27 +0200, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Jones writes: > Rick> tcpdump 4.1.1, and 4.3.0-PRE-GIT_2011_04_01 prints just one > Rick> expanded counter sample per captured PDU because it mistakenly > R

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:11 -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > > > tcpdump 4.1.1, and 4.3.0-PRE-GIT_2011_04_01 prints just one expanded > > counter sample per captured PDU because it mistakenly skips forward > > sflow_sample_len when

[tcpdump-workers] [PATCH] print-sflow.c - actually print more than one extended counter sample

2011-04-01 Thread Rick Jones
. Shifting the adjustment to the "default sample" case where the sample wasn't printed appears to fix this, though there is still some question as to whether it should advance by sflow_sample_len or some adjustment thereof. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones raj@tardy:~/tcpdump$ diff print-sfl

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Best OS / Distribution for gigabit capture?

2011-02-07 Thread Rick Jones
. (e.g. you can run a Bonnie++ to see how fast your disk system is.) And be certain to beat on the filesystem/disc with I/Os of the size that will be coming from your packet capturing... rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] HUGE packet-drop

2011-01-24 Thread Rick Jones
I see you weren't binding the app explicitly to the same core, but simply to the same processor, so perhaps the same thing is happening with your app as with my netserver :) rick jones PS - don't forget that some NICs have multiple IRQs... :) - This is the tcpdump-worke

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcp sequence and ack number with libpcap

2010-08-19 Thread Rick Jones
uent segments it sees. Are you printing-out any other characteristics of the TCP segments to act as a sanity check - say to make sure you are dealing with the correct offsets? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support

2010-05-26 Thread Rick Jones
Guy Harris wrote: Is there ever any reason *NOT* to use the hardware timestamp if it's available? Only if it and the host time are not sufficiently in sync and you want to correlate with other things timestamped with host time. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Libpcap performance under VMWare guest OSes

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Jones
how much CPU is left over when the guest(s) are running at these rates. rick jones The following tests are between 3 physical machines on a 10-meg ethernet network all connected to the same subnet. System #1: win_32 and ubuntu1_32(dual CPU) System #2: fedora core 64-bit (quad CPU)

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Libpcap performance under VMWare guest OSes

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Jones
on't do well on libpcap. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

[tcpdump-workers] libpcap-1.0.0 configure error on HP-UX 11.11 and 11.31

2009-11-05 Thread Rick Jones
after the in the configure script appears to complete on 11.11 and 11.31. Is this a known problem? happy benchmarking, rick jones cannot recall if he is still subscribed to the list, so please cc on replies - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [Patch] tcpdump probabilistic sampling

2008-04-01 Thread Rick Jones
h pseudo-random subsets of the traffic? I'd think that if one wanted to be tracing a gigabit link one would trace to a binary file and post-process, or have a rather specific filter in place? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

2008-02-06 Thread Rick Jones
Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:09:33AM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: What is the reason for having optional IPv6 in the first place (besides OSes that don't provide all necessary header files)? Memory savings? ISTR there were some "funnies" on some OSes wher

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should we enable IPv6 support by default?

2008-02-06 Thread Rick Jones
places someone would be likely to look if a compile failed, IPv6 by default should be fine. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Secret of great tcpdump performance ..

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Jones
Michael Krueger wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:47:24 +0100, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How many processors do you have, are interrupts from each NIC going to seperate processors/cores/whatever (show us the output of /proc/interrupts), and have you bound each tcpdump

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Secret of great tcpdump performance ..

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Jones
Michael Krueger wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:47:24 +0100, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How many processors do you have, are interrupts from each NIC going to seperate processors/cores/whatever (show us the output of /proc/interrupts), and have you bound each tcpdump

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Secret of great tcpdump performance ..

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Jones
How many processors do you have, are interrupts from each NIC going to seperate processors/cores/whatever (show us the output of /proc/interrupts), and have you bound each tcpdump to its corresponding NICs interrupt CPU? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Running multiple instances of tcpdump

2008-01-04 Thread Rick Jones
that this limitation is relaxed in 11iv3 (aka 11.31) with the installation of patch PHNE_36857 which was released in December of 2007. I have no information on that being back-ported to 11iv2 or 11iv1 and would assume it would be based entirely on demand made known through official channels.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] capturing only wrong checksum packets

2007-11-28 Thread Rick Jones
system with CKO (ChecKsum Offload) enabled, you would probably see incorrect checksums for all outbound traffic. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] false checksum failure reports

2007-11-07 Thread Rick Jones
ronnie sahlberg wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 12:54 PM, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harley Stenzel wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 2:03 PM, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any thoughts as to how to deal with false checksum failure reports for outbound traffic being sniffed on a

Re: [tcpdump-workers] false checksum failure reports

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
Harley Stenzel wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 2:03 PM, Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any thoughts as to how to deal with false checksum failure reports for outbound traffic being sniffed on a system with ChecKsum Offload (CKO)? It seems that linux has a flag they can set when capturi

[tcpdump-workers] false checksum failure reports

2007-11-06 Thread Rick Jones
necessary to "guess" based on the source IP matching one of the system's local IPs. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] RFC: Add multicast reception API to libpcap

2007-08-27 Thread Rick Jones
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Rick Jones wrote: So this is meant to enable receipt of specific multicasts and not receipt of all multicasts right? Is that a particularly "pcappy" thing? Correct. I believe it logically belongs with pcap, as it is something which may well be require

Re: [tcpdump-workers] RFC: Add multicast reception API to libpcap

2007-08-24 Thread Rick Jones
So this is meant to enable receipt of specific multicasts and not receipt of all multicasts right? Is that a particularly "pcappy" thing? Anyway, for HP-UX and Solaris, I suspect the receive all multicasts would be a DL_PROMISC_MULTI rather than the (i suspect) current DL_PROMISC_P

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Byte count instead of packet count?

2007-02-07 Thread Rick Jones
full size snaplen. Having said that, I suspect that the changes to add a byte count would be pretty straightforward if you wanted to implement them. The only question outstanding I would think would be whether that should be a byte count based on snaplen captured, or the sum of the actual pac

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
operty of being less likely to break someones scripts no? rick jones Index: print-tcp.c === RCS file: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/print-tcp.c,v retrieving revision 1.126 diff -u -r1.126 print-tcp.c --- print-tcp.c 2 Nov 2006 08:56:

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap : Reading from kernel interface

2006-08-30 Thread Rick Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, I wish to use hostap (a driver for wireless cards) + libpcap + tcpdump to bring some extra details of the packets in the user space. I wish to know that how libpcap reads the packet from the kernel/interfaces. That varies by platform. Probably best don

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap

2006-08-30 Thread Rick Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, I am a newbie in the group. Please let me know if the clarifications regarding libpcap should also be posted here or there is some separate mailing list for it. Yes, this group is used for questions about libpcap. rick jones anyone heard from guy

Re: [tcpdump-workers] HP-UX crash on inject while receiving

2006-07-31 Thread Rick Jones
o enable support for multiple promiscuous streams per interface. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap 0.9.4 on HP-UX: "Device busy"

2006-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
g bound in each case? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap 0.9.4 on HP-UX: "Device busy"

2006-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
romisc_phys: UNIX error - Device busy It sounds like some other process has the device open. On HP-UX, unlike Linux and (iirc) Solaris, only one process may have an interface open at a time. It would be more accurate to say that it allows only one promiscuous mode stream per interface. rick jone

Re: [tcpdump-workers] compiling problem

2006-06-07 Thread Rick Jones
/print-dhcp6.c:596: undefined reference to `__ntohl' ./print-dhcp6.c:598: undefined reference to `__ntohl' I wonder if the manpage for ntohl and/or ntohs it shows an include file that print-dhcp6.c is not including? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-10 Thread Rick Jones
Guy Harris wrote: On Apr 7, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Rick Jones wrote: As for checking against the normal MTU, does tcpdump/libpcap have that information? Only to the extent that it could infer that from the link-layer type. (Jumbo frames might make that tricky.) And since TSO _really_

Re: [tcpdump-workers] guessing when TSO is present

2006-04-07 Thread Rick Jones
annot remember if HP offered TSO on 11.11 or if it was strictly 11.23 and later. Asking the person who submitted the bug if they have set a VMTU on the interface being traces would be goodness. rick jones On 4/7/06, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hannes Gredler wrote: c

Re: [tcpdump-workers] transmitting packets

2006-04-04 Thread Rick Jones
it related to the libpcap and below not keeping-up. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] pcap_inject() fails with rc 0 on HP-UX

2006-04-03 Thread Rick Jones
r support contract(s) to have an enhancement request opened against DLPI. Does your program actually require promiscuous mode to function? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] transmitting packets

2006-03-31 Thread Rick Jones
sweat :) What sort of problem are you looking to solve? For just blasting frames onto the wire, there is the in-kernel pktgen stuff under linux. sincerely, rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Checksum

2006-03-15 Thread Rick Jones
And keep in mind that if you are tracing on a system with a NIC doing ChecKsum Offload the outbound traffic from that system will probably not have the checksum calculated yet since the NIC will be doing it... rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to

Re: [tcpdump-workers] fragmented packets

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Jones
rate is 1% p would be 0.01 and 1-p would be 0.99). Since all packets have to make it across, if there are N fragments that means the chances of all of them making it is (1-p)^N. (1-p)^N gets very small very rapidly as N increases. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

2006-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
x threads; so i'll "taste" performance differences. _Clusters_?!? That is a rather important detail... Somehow I seriously doubt that a libpcap application can span nodes in a computational cluster. At least not the stuff doing the promiscuous mode bits. rick jones - This

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Multi process sniffing and dropped packets

2006-01-12 Thread Rick Jones
o way to do this: Do you really have to do the cpu intensive work on those packets in real time? Why don't you want to use threads to distribute work across the CPUs? Specifically, on _which_ platform do you want to do this? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. V

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap make failing on AIX

2005-12-09 Thread Rick Jones
hey will on AIX as well. rick jones portable adj, code that compiles under more than one compiler these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.s

Re: [tcpdump-workers] CVS down? Daily snapshot script broken?

2005-11-10 Thread Rick Jones
- last time I looked, 10.09 was the latest. Ironic coincidence that today happens to be the 10th of November - is the machine's date off by a month? rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] changes to scanner.l for HP-UX 11.11 lex

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
Guy Harris wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Shouldn't that have then appeared in the 11/09 "current" tar? I just grabbed that and it doesn't seem to have been there. Operator error on my part? Grabbing the wrong tar file or something? It was che

[tcpdump-workers] compilation warnings from HP-UX 11.23 IA64 (32-bit compile)

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
For fun and excitement :) I tried compiling the 10.09 bits on an IA64 HP-UX 11.23 system. I'm not _entirely_ certain of the lineage of the compiler I'm using, having gotten it from an internal depot, but it did emit some warnings that may or may not be meaningful: the first batch look mostly

Re: [tcpdump-workers] changes to scanner.l for HP-UX 11.11 lex

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
Shouldn't that have then appeared in the 11/09 "current" tar? I just grabbed that and it doesn't seem to have been there. Operator error on my part? Grabbing the wrong tar file or something? Part of it might be that there is no 11/09 tar - the last "current" appears to be 10/09 rick - This

Re: [tcpdump-workers] changes to scanner.l for HP-UX 11.11 lex

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
Guy Harris wrote: On Nov 7, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Rick Jones wrote: The following change bumps a few limits in scanner.l so it will be processed by the lex which ships with HP-UX. It is based on libpcap-2005.10.09. While I was here, I went through to make sure that utilization of these

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Libpcap compile

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
probably filter on packet size - a bare ACK would just be the TCP, IP and link-level headers. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

[tcpdump-workers] changes to scanner.l for HP-UX 11.11 lex

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Jones
The following change bumps a few limits in scanner.l so it will be processed by the lex which ships with HP-UX. It is based on libpcap-2005.10.09. While I was here, I went through to make sure that utilization of these things was no more than ~80%: $ lex -t scanner.l > /dev/null 6056/7600 node

[tcpdump-workers] HP-UX 11.11 - print-dccp.c compile fails

2005-11-07 Thread Rick Jones
hat has been fixed in a compiler patch or later version, but I thought I might send-along the patch just the same. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] 3.9.3 on HP-UX 11i

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Jones
distribute a port of ethereal - I've no idea though if anything was/could be done at that level to workaround the limitation, but if there was something done there, the ethereal sources HP modified should be around - software.hp.com should be a decent starting point to find the "inter

Re: [tcpdump-workers] 3.9.3 on HP-UX 11i

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Jones
uity is being requested in both opens, and possibly if *any* flavor of promiscuity is being requested in both opens (libpcap requests SAP promiscuity if it doesn't request physical promiscuity). Indeed, the dimm recesses of my mind recall such limitations in HP-UX promiscuous mode su

Re: [tcpdump-workers] 3.9.3 on HP-UX 11i

2005-08-10 Thread Rick Jones
11.20 aka 11i v1.5 Itanium only HP-UX 11.22 aka 11i v1.6 Itanium2 (?) only HP-UX 11.23 aka 11i v2.0 Itanium2 only HP-UX 11.23 aka 11i v2.0 Update 2 Itanium2 and PA-RISC rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

Re: [tcpdump-workers] BPF vs DLPI performance

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
, a "pure" BPF interface would give better performance than DLPI. DLPI though may still give "sufficient" performance. rick jones - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.

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