Re: Capturing in 32 bit guests

[Romain Francoise <rfrancoise () debian org>]

Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:

> 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'd need
> to know what version of the kernel is running on the system to determine
> whether TPACKET_V2 is supported or not (I don't know which kernel
> version first introduced it).

You need 2.6.27 to make it work (TPACKET_v2 + PACKET_RESERVE).

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