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Re: Influence of pcap_open_live parameters on pcap_sendpacket
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:34:37 -0700
On Aug 16, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Doktor Bernd wrote:
Two questions: - Do the two pcap_open_live() calls influence the hardware in anyway and have side effects on each other or are they bound to the handle and I can rely on the parameters I give to be set?
For LAN hardware, the "promisc" argument to pcap_open_live() affects whether the interface is put in promiscuous mode; all handles will be in promiscuous mode if any are (or, for that matter, if any other process has turned on promiscuous mode directly rather than through libpcap).
- Do the parameters influence pcap_sendpacket() in any way? From the documentation I assume that they are only for capturing from that interface.
None of them should affect pcap_sendpacket() directly; perhaps running in promiscuous mode will, for example, cause the network adapter to be busier, which might slow down its sending of packets to some degree.- This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
Current thread:
- Influence of pcap_open_live parameters on pcap_sendpacket Doktor Bernd (Aug 16)
- Re: Influence of pcap_open_live parameters on pcap_sendpacket Aaron Turner (Aug 16)
- Re: Influence of pcap_open_live parameters on pcap_sendpacket Guy Harris (Aug 16)
- Re: Influence of pcap_open_live parameters on Doktor Bernd (Aug 17)