From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: netdev@sc-software.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Outbound pktgen pkts missed by tcpdump/pcap
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:22:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450AE15E.1070006@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609151000360.9994@sc-software.com>
netdev@sc-software.com wrote:
>
> Kernels 2.6.13, 2.6.17.7 & 2.6.17.13...
>
> I've been unable to capture outbound packets from local eth2,
> generated by pktgen using the just previous and latest releases
> of tcpdump & libpcap. All incoming pktgen pkts are seen just fine.
> Pkts are UDP.
>
> Any clues to save me some time fixing this, would greatly appreciated.
Pktgen sends below the packet capture hooks, so you cannot sniff out-going traffic.
If you changed the code to do a dev-queue-xmit instead of hard_start_xmit, it
might be captured then, but would probably decrease pktgen performance.
Ben
>
> Thnx much.
> johnh
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2006-09-15 17:08 Outbound pktgen pkts missed by tcpdump/pcap netdev
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