Hello everybody, I'm about writing a packet filter using libpcap .. I just have two theoretical question that I hope to get them answered here.
1) Let say, I've initialed pcap on my ethernet nic using "pcap_open_live" (in non-blocking-mode) and "pcap_dispatch". lets assume that the user callback function (for dispatch) is implemented in not optimal manner that takes for example 5 seconds to finish processing each packet. I want to know what will happen to ongoing incoming packets ?! are they getting buffered or queued somewhere in OS ? or they just get simply dropped ? 2) When i initial pcap with pcap_open_live, and I set "to_ms" (read-timeout) parameter to zero .. I cannot catch a thing ! it has to be more than zero to work .. Is it normal behavior ? Thanks, -- Hadi Rezaee +98 912 1403571 IdeaTech.io _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
