Re: [PACTH] enable memory mapped access to ethernet

["Abeni Paolo" <paolo.abeni () telecomitalia it>]

hello,

on Thu 1/3/2008 10:26 AM Guy Harris wrote:
 
> Presumably if pcap_open_live() supplies a very large snapshot length, 
> the attempt to allocate the ring buffer will fail if the ring buffer 
> would be too large.

Currently the whole ring size is bounded to 4M, which seams a rasonable default (is the same value currently used by 
the bpf code). Using a very large snap length make the allocation somewhat more difficult for the kernel, but I suppose 
that is better to follow the user 'desiderata'. If the ring allocation fails, the capture is open with the traditional 
packet socket interface, so there is no loss of functionality.

Please note anyway that the snaplen bounding was a legacy from the first version of the patch (when the snaplen 
parameter in pcap_open_live was used to encode both the snapshot length and the ring frame number).

ciao,

Paolo

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