hello,
First, thanks for the detailed review. It seems that some of the
relevant point has been addressed by Guy Harris, so I'll try to catch
the others...
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:54 -0500, Alexander Dupuy wrote:
> Rounding the ring size to nearest power of two wastes quite a bit of
> memory f
do
not use memory mapped access).
Have a nice day
GV
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> The idea behind the snaplen [miss-]use is to permit legacy application
> to take advantage of the memory mapped access and permit new ones to
> control the ring behaviur. Such goal could be obtained even with other
> solution, but I was a bit 'sc
hello,
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 08:23 -0800, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
> From what you said, you basically changed the behavior of the snaplen
> parameter of pcap_open_live(). At the risk of being annoing, I find it a
> really bad idea. If it's called snaplen, it's the snaplen, period.
> Isn't it pos
