El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 13:29, Mario Rugiero (<mrugi...@gmail.com>) escribió: > It depends. > Which distro is it? > When does it EOL? > Do we expect a release of libpcap before that? > What version of libpcap does it ship? > Do the providers ship it with custom patches? > For the "official" distro package, is it likely to have a major upgrade? > Do they currently provide bug-fixes on their own > Is it simpler to just branch away for critical fixes? Note that > patches will be backported one way or another if they don't do major > upgrades. > Considering it's an LTS, I'm guessing they don't do major upgrades and > they keep vendor patches already, so that's what they'll keep doing. > Also, I just checked, 2.6.32 supports TPACKET_V2, which should still be supported because of immediate mode. So we can make them happy, too. I still dislike the idea of advertising such support, tho, as it may imply a compromise to add workarounds and such if they eventually need them, and that generally is a slippery slope.
El mar., 8 oct. 2019 a las 14:24, Guy Harris (<ghar...@sonic.net>) escribió: > cp /dev/null patch > > should suffice. :-) > > I.e., we're *already* using TPACKET_V2 if immediate mode is specified. See > prepare_tpacket_socket() - if handle->opt.immediate is set, it doesn't try > TPACKET_V3, and skips to TPACKET_V2. Cool! I must have missed it. _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
