libpcap ring buffer patches and SMP boxes

[Peter Van Epp]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:47:25PM +1200, Russell Fulton wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm currently trying to compile the version of libpcap from
> http://public.lanl.gov/cpw/ on a FC6 dual core box.   I'm getting
> conflicting definitions for some of the low level stuff in the
> include/asm directory.
> 
> I note that other linux distros have an /asm dir in /usr/include -- what
> I did on FC6 was to edit the make file to add a
> -I/usr/src/kernel/..../include/asm
> 
> Has anyone hit this one before??
> 
> I know Peter uses the kernel patches from ntop but I don't have access
> to a tame kernel monkey :)
> 
> Russell

	I think our current kernel is up for ftp from ftp.sfu.ca in 
/pub/unix/argus (and if not I can put it up)  but it is a SUSE kernel perhaps 
for PowerPC and it also contains the web100 changes for ndt so it may not 
work on RedHat (it seems SUSE does something odd at boot time and needs 
changes from a stock kernel which is the most likely cause of problems I 
expect). 
	It should be interesting to see how the Lanl kernel performs (I'd
expect very well :-)). 

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada