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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:28:44 +0100
To: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <harisri@bigpond.com>
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Subject: OFFTOPIC: Re: Request for help - tcpdump on many ethernet cards simulateneously
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:51:19AM +1100, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
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> What I am really worried about is kernel may start dropping the packets after 
> few hours/days and/or tcpdump/kernel may not be able to keep up with the 
> network load due to IO load on the hard drives, memory pressure etc.. 

find a libpcap using CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP, and you will probably forget about
drops IMHO

if you do find it, please let me now

I'm currently using pandora's monitor modified libpcap.... GREAT

I think that Linux is the only OS that provides user space buffers to packet
capture... am I wrong?

Maybe this is an offtopic on this mailing list... 
...so this is my first and last mail about it here.

	Ulisses

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