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Re: Capturing in 32 bit guests


From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:50:16 -0800


On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

so the mmap interface should work between a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland *if* the kernel supports TPACKET_V2, as 
libpcap should choose TPACKET_V2 rather than TPACKET_V1 if TPACKET_V2 is supported.

I tried building 32-bit versions of top-of-trunk libpcap and tcpdump on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machine, and 
running the resulting version of tcpdump; it appeared to work OK.-
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