Aye - quite ugly - but working.  I dont see any DLT
type reported when I turned on -K and -t 4.  

-wP


--- Burton Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So the DLT messages are reporting this still as
> 10Base-T ( DLT: Device 1
> [eth2] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14 )???
> 
> That's ugly because there's then no way to tell them
> apart...
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of frank rizzo
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Ntop-dev] RE: [Ntop] Jumbo frame support
> question
> 
> I changed the mtu for the EN10MB DLT type in
> globals-core.c table to 9000 as
> you described:
> 
> _mtuSize[DLT_EN10MB] = 9000;
> 
> Its a kludge but works for me (my C is weak sauce). 
> Gig ints are now happily plugging away without
> too-large packet warnings.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -wP
> 
> 
> --- Burton Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The FAQ is in the source, and also available
> HTMLized through About | 
> > Help.
> > 
> > There is no explicit support. To the extent jumbo
> frames are just 
> > large Ethernet frames, ntop will work.
> > 
> > First, let's move this to ntop-dev...
> > 
> > The code to handle "DLT" (Data Link Type) is
> largely in pbuf.c, 
> > although the table is in globals-core.c.
> > 
> > 
> > The mtu table is set in initNtopGlobals(), look
> for
> > _mtu:
> > 
> >   { int ii;
> >     for (ii=0; ii<MAX_DLT_ARRAY; ii++) {
> >         _mtuSize[ii]    = CONST_UNKNOWN_MTU;
> >         _headerSize[ii] = 0;
> >     }
> >   }
> >   
> >   _mtuSize[DLT_NULL] = 8232                       
>  
> >           /* no
> > link-layer encapsulation */;
> >   _headerSize[DLT_NULL] = CONST_NULL_HDRLEN;
> > 
> > So we need to figure out the values.
> > 
> > Run ntop w/ -t 4 (trace level 4) and grep out the
> > DLT: messages, e.g.:
> > 
> > Apr  1 14:39:21 tigger ntop[2434]:   DLT: Device 0
> > [eth1] is 1, mtu 1514,
> > header 14
> > Apr  1 14:39:21 tigger ntop[2434]:   DLT: Device 1
> > [eth2] is 1, mtu 1514,
> > header 14
> > 
> > That will show how ntop is seeing the frames.  It
> > may simply be a matter of
> > increasing the mtu upper value, or it may be
> another
> > ethertype, which will
> > require coding in pbuf.c
> > 
> > 
> > -----Burton
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > frank rizzo
> > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:39 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Ntop] Jumbo frame support question
> > 
> > I am relatively new to ntop and this list, so I
> > apologize if this is
> > something that has been covered (the FAQ site is
> > also down apparently).  
> > 
> > I have a gig nic that I have enabled jumbo frames
> on
> > -- the specific application that I am working with
> > consists primary of
> > jumbo-frame multicast data.  The MTU shows as 1500
> > in the ntop status -- my
> > nic is set to 9000.  I see no ability to change
> this
> > in the config of ntop.
> > Am I missing something?  Can ntop deal with jumbo
> > frames?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -wP
> > 
> > 
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