Re: Unexpected primitive ack DL_UNITDATA_IND

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

Gordon Tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an application which uses libpcap 0.7.2 to monitor network
> traffic by tracking the size of IP packets as well as their source and
> destination. One of our QA people just encountered a rather odd error on
> Solaris 8 which we have never seen before:
>
>   recv_ack: info: Unexpected primitive ack DL_UNITDATA_IND
>
> Does anybody know what this means? It seems to have occurred while
> calling pcap_open_live (snaplen is sizeof(struct ip) + sizeof(struct
> ether_header), promisc is 1, to_ms is 100).

Does it always happen or just sometimes?  A DL_UNITDATA_IND is basically saying 
"Hi there, here is a packet" in DLPI speak.  It looks like the stream is sending 
one of those up to the application when libpcap isn't expecting it.

rick jones
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