Linux ATM support

[Carter Bullard]

I use libpcap-0.7.1 from http://www.tcpdump.org.
I believe that it is the latest and greatest.
I'm not sure where libpcap-1.10-5 comes from?

Carter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saulo Vaz de Vasconcellos [mailto:vaz at gta.ufrj.br] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:07 AM
> To: Carter Bullard
> Subject: RE: Linux ATM support
> 
> 
> Hi Carter,
> 
> > Argus uses libpcap to get its packets.  If there is
> > a tcpdump that captures packets from your ATM interface,
> > then argus should work.  I have versions running on FORE/
> > Marconi ATM cards, so it does work with in some ATM
> > environments.   What version of libpcap are you using?
> 
> First of all, thanks for the attention :-)
> I am running tcpdump to atm0 and it captures nicely the pkts.
> By the way, the libcap is libcap-1.10-5. When nI try the 
> command line u 
> suggested, the program just dies. No errors and the prompt is 
> back to the 
> user. No argus processes running... I've installed with rpm. 
> I'll try to 
> compile another version. Do  u know if this libcap is buggy?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> Saulo
> 
> > 
> > One thing you can do is compile argus with debug support
> > and run argus under gdb.   In the distribution root directory:
> > 
> > > touch .debug
> > > gmake clobber
> > > ./configure
> > > gmake
> > > gdb bin/argus_linux
> > gdb> run -Xi atm0
> > 
> > and see what happens.
> > 
> > Carter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> > > [mailto:owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of 
> > > Saulo Vaz de Vasconcellos
> > > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:06 PM
> > > To: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > > Subject: Linux ATM support
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Here at our lab we are developing a testbed and qe would like 
> > > to employ 
> > > the Argus to performance analysis. Unfortunaly wue are having 
> > > some trouble:
> > > 
> > > One link we want to monitor is an ATM link. We are 
> running RedHat 7.3 
> > > linux with ATM support. The argus version is argus-2.0-5.
> > > 
> > > Whenever I choose the ARGUS_INTERFACE=atm0 option in the 
> > > /etc/argus.conf 
> > > the deamon dies and I couldn't even stop the service. The 
> > > process dies and 
> > > the service script cannot erase the lock file, so I must 
> > > delete it myself. 
> > > 
> > > When I try the other interfaces (3 eth's) the deamon works well.
> > > 
> > > Any clue? the Argus works fine with linux ATM?
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 	Saulo Vaz de Vasconcellos, MSc.
> > > 	
> > > 	Research - GTA/COPPE - Brazil
> > > 	tel: +55 21 2260-5010 ext. 240
> > > 	http://www.gta.ufrj.br/~vaz
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> 	Saulo Vaz de Vasconcellos, MSc.
> 	
> 	Research - GTA/COPPE - Brazil
> 	tel: +55 21 2260-5010 ext. 240
> 	http://www.gta.ufrj.br/~vaz
> 
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