Re: Exposing linux libpcap ring buffer usage information

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

On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Dustin Spicuzza wrote:

> I'd like to get information on how much of the mmap'ed ring buffer is
> being used so that I can deal with dropped packets more effectively. I
> was going to add a patch for this, but its not clear to me the best  
> way
> to expose the information. I'm tempted to just add an additional
> call/struct for the information, but it would be nice if the existing
> API's could be extended instead.

What existing API were you thinking of extending?  Note that you can't  
grow the pcap_stat structure without breaking binary compatibility.
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