Re: kenel level packet capturing

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le mercredi 19 octobre 2011 à 12:24 +0530, raviraj joshi a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> We are making a kernel level packet capture module as a part of our BE project .
> We are finding it difficult to understand kenel networking code.
> We studied structures and functions like sk_buff, netif_rx(),dev_alloc_skb.
> 
> However we were not able to trace the actual path a simple packet follows.
> 
> Moreover we tried to count the no of times netif_rx function was
> called it was much much lower than amount of packets actually being
> received.
> 
> Can anyone please let us know the reason for this and how to approach
> the problem of writing a kernel level packet capture module ,resoruces
> we need to refer to (we are currently constrained to documents on
> kernel-networking available online).
> 

Most drivers call netif_receive_skb() from softirq handler

netif_rx() is used only on cases where we are in hard irq handler, or we
want to avoid a recursion (tunnels for example)

To install a packet capture, you should take a look at dev_add_pack()
and friends [ net/packet/af_packet.c being a good reference ]



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