argus-clients-3.0.0.rc.6.tar.gz and FreeBSD 4.10

[Carter Bullard]

More than likely, I am not doing the correct libpcap thing according
to tcpdump.org.   They change things all the time, and its pretty
unnerving.  Which tcpdump does good with the ring?

Carter

On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:31 AM, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:11:26AM -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
>> Hey Peter,
>>    I'll try to get rid of the ifndef's.   It does like #if !defined 
>> ()?
>
> 	Yep, I thought of doing that (and can and supply the patch) but the
> warnings appear to be harmless (complaining about the redefine  
> which is
> identical) so it didn't seem worth the effort but it would be cleaner.
>
>> I'll also try to get the code lined up right (some have this
>> notion of an explicit declaration section, so I'll try to
>> conform to that.
>>
>>    Right now we have a significant little-endian problem with
>> argus-2.0 record conversion, so I'm working on that.
>
> 	All to the good! I've ordered a couple of IBM P510 Power5 boxes for
> new sensors so when they come I should have both endians (and some  
> new Sun
> Opteron boxes) to play with. As I get time I'll continue poking at  
> 3.0.
> 	The Linux ring buffer code appears to have internal problems. On  
> argus
> it goes west so hard that a reset is the only thing that will  
> recover, and
> that seems really unlikely to be argus :-) although it seems to  
> mostly survive
> when running tcpdump.
>
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>

Carter Bullard
CEO/President
QoSient, LLC
150 E. 57th Street Suite 12D
New York, New York 10022

+1 212 588-9133 Phone
+1 212 588-9134 Fax