On Sep 18, 2006, at 5:41 AM, Sharma, Karun wrote:

> I am trying to capture packets on Infiniband interface but getting  
> error (see below). tshark is working fine for eth0 interface. I am  
> using 0.99.4 version and RHEL4 up3 x86_64 machine.
> Is there any known solution/workaround for this issue?

Yes - as per

        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180980

the workaround is "don't use the current version of RHEL4, use some  
distribution with a kernel without the EOVERFLOW 'fix'".

> Can you please send me a patch to solve this issue.

No, because I don't have the Linux kernel source handy at present, but  
what you want to do is edit net/core/dev.c, look for "case  
SIOCGIFHWADDR:" somewhere around line 2362, and change the code to do

                case SIOCGIFHWADDR:
                {
                        size_t copylen;

                        copylen = dev->addr_len;
                        if (copylen > sizeof ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data)
                                copylen = sizeof ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data;
                        memset(ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, 0, sizeof 
ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data);
                        memcpy(ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_data, dev->dev_addr, copylen);
                        ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_family = dev->type;
                        return 0;
                }

and then recompile the kernel and install the new kernel.

(This isn't a patch to Wireshark, but the problem isn't *in*  
Wireshark, it's in the Linux kernel, so the change is to the Linux  
kernel.)
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