Re: Libpcap speed problem

[arif ugurel <arifugurel () gmail com>]

Hi,
I made  my code as simple as possible. Just open devices, read from one of
them and send it thru the other one and vice versa. May be the problem is
about some kind of loop. But i couldn't figured it out.
Any other ideas?

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Aaron Turner <synfinatic () gmail com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Arif UGUREL <arifugurel () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I'm using libpcap on OpenSuse 11.1. I have 2 interfaces ie. eth0 and
> > eth1. I'm trying to capture packets from eth0 and send them thru eth1.
> > I'm doing some logging operations before sending thru eth1. I developed
> > a simple application, when i deployed the box to our network, everything
> > is fine but after a while capture speed dramatically decreases and
> > starts to miss packets. I'm checking memory and CPU usage but everything
> > seems fine and total system memory is stable. I'm using an Intel board
> > with 1.6 Ghz atom CPU and 1 GB of RAM. I think my hardware is enough for
> > capturing 10Mbit network.
> > I'm confused about the speed decrease after some time. What do u think,
> > can it be the libpcap's internal problem, or my misuse.
>
> Based on the info you've provided, I'm going to guess your code is the
> problem.  I don't see this problem with tcpbridge which does the same
> thing.
>
>
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