Do the recent tcpdump releases use the shared memory functionality of the newer libpcap libraries? Basically, if I download the latest tcpdump and the latest libpcap and compile them on FreeBSD and on Linux, and then run the binary, will I get the speed advantages of mmap()?
Or are there other things that I have to do, tcpdump/libpcap or maybe OS related? Thanks Jon On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: > >> Are there any plans for a shared memory libpcap version from you guys? >> I know that there are some other that have modified libpcap to use mmap() >> such as Phil's: public.lanl.gov/cpw >> >> I was just curious to whether you guys have anything > > Yes, we have some things called "libpcap 1.0" and "libpcap 1.1". :-) > > Support for both Linux and FreeBSD memory-mapped capture has been in libpcap > since 1.0. > > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
