[Bug] Argus -N option

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Fri Jun 6 16:04:57 EDT 2008


Hey Nick,
Hmmmmm, that seems weird, are you using a dag card?  That maybe it,
but that seems weird.  Try this patch, and if it works, I'll put it in.

Carter

==== //depot/argus/argus/argus/ArgusSource.c#40 - /home/carter/argus/ 
argus/argus/ArgusSource.c ====
2207c2207
<          } while (noerror && (src->eNflag != 0) && (! 
(ArgusShutDownStarted)));
---
 >          } while (noerror && (src->eNflag > 0) && (! 
(ArgusShutDownStarted)));


On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Nick Diel wrote:

> Argus doesn't stop captureing when specifying the number of packets  
> to capture.
>
> argus -i dag0:0 -N 10 -w testfile
>   ArgusWarning: argus[25651]: 06 Jun 08 11:09:34.916754 started
> -After 10 seconds later I kill the process (we should have 10  
> packets in less than a second)
>
> racount -r testfile
> racount   records     total_pkts     src_pkts       dst_pkts        
> total_bytes        src_bytes          dst_bytes
>     sum   26207       233605         185034         48571           
> 152784630          113831593          38953037
>
> I have tested this and got the same results using much larger  
> packets counts (500,000).
>
> Nick
>




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