Re: [tcpdump-workers] setting rcvbuf

2004-06-16 Thread John Heffner
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:49 PM, John Heffner wrote: > > > I've found that on my linux machines, setting the rcvbuf on the packet > > socket bigger helps to reduce drops at high rates. > > > > I implemented the following, though I'm not sure how this works on

Re: [tcpdump-workers] setting rcvbuf

2004-06-15 Thread Guy Harris
On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:49 PM, John Heffner wrote: I've found that on my linux machines, setting the rcvbuf on the packet socket bigger helps to reduce drops at high rates. I implemented the following, though I'm not sure how this works on BSD and other UNIXes. It *doesn't* work on BSD, unfortunatel

[tcpdump-workers] setting rcvbuf

2004-06-15 Thread John Heffner
I've found that on my linux machines, setting the rcvbuf on the packet socket bigger helps to reduce drops at high rates. I implemented the following, though I'm not sure how this works on BSD and other UNIXes. I'm also only guessing that pcap_setbuff has a similar meaning under windows and that