Re: Buffer size question

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:19 AM, Hannes Gredler wrote:

> shouldn't we have upper/lower boundary checks for
> such a buffer ?
>
> i.e. minbuffer 1.5K
>      maxbuffer 128K

I think the BPF kernel code in most of the BSDs already impose upper 
and lower bounds; are you suggesting that libpcap impose its own 
bounds?

Note also that other OSes might also have the notion of a settable 
buffer size, and perhaps the other pcap-*.c files should also check the 
PCAP_BUFSIZE environment variable.  Those OSes might, or might not, 
impose their own upper and lower bounds.

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