Re: is CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP always a win?

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 06:45, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
> David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> >    From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
> >    Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:51:20 -0800
> > 
> >    What's the best way to retrieve raw packets from the kernel?
> >    
> >    a) use libpcap
> >  ...   
> >    b) use af_packet
> >  ...   
> >    c) enable CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP, use PACKET_RX_RING
> >    
> >    If I understand it right, b costs one memcpy and one recv, and c costs
> >    two memcpys.  Which one wins?
> > 
> > "a" should be doing "c" when it is available in the kernel.
> > If not, get a newer copy of the libpcap sources, preferably
> > from Alexey's site:
> > 
> > ftp.inr.ac.ru:/ip-routing/
> 
> 
> And if you can figure out how to do c, and feel like
> sharing, please do let me know!  Documentation is a
> bit sparse..at least wherever I've been looking.

Yeah I found it a bit lacking too, I got there in the end though. Check
out: http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/code-fu/lincap.c

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