Re: libpcap and PF_RING

[Jim Lloyd <jim () silvertailsystems com>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jakub Zawadzki
<darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:10:02AM -0700, Jim Lloyd wrote:
> > I'm confused as to what is required for libpcap to use PF_RING. Most of
> the
> > hits I have seen while searching for this are ancient and refer to
> libpcap
> > 0.8. Can anyone please provide a link or summarize what must be done for
> > libpcap to use PF_RING on a relatively modern Linux x86_64 system. I am
> in
> > particular interested in RHEL5/6.
>
> https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/PF_RING/doc/UsersGuide.pdf
> page 12-16

Thanks. I could have sworn that PF_RING support was integrated into the
mainline libpcap sources sometime in the last couple 2-3 years. But it
appears now that it's still necessary to use a patched version of libpcap,
and that the patch is not maintained by the core libpcap developers. Is
that correct?

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