Comment # 6
on bug 10064
from Anders Broman
(In reply to comment #5)
> > I would guess that "with libpcap version 1.5.3" using TPACKET_V3 is the difference.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hmmm. Putting "TPACKET_V3" into Google reveals hits about "high speed packet
> captures". But that's not much use if it's not reliable and drops packets.
> So this sounds like an Ubuntu packaging issue -- are there any command line
> switches to revert to non-TPACKET_V3 captures, or do I need to compile from
> source?
I think there have been some patches to libpcap regarding timouts - perhaps
related, or not...
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/9e35faaac7436d29b607e5664b73c4676ec326a4
I donät know if those fixes have made it into 1.5.
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