disable check for interface health

[MING FU]

Hi Carter,

We don't currently have a naming convention to the device. I will let you know if we can decide on one.

Thanks
Ming


----- Original Message -----
From: Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com>
To: MING FU <fuming188 at yahoo.ca>
Cc: Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ARGUS] disable check for interface health

Hey Ming,
In the routine ArgusGetInterfaceStatus(), we have exceptions for interfaces
that don’t support ioctl() checking of interface status.  The interface
names “dag”, “napa”, “dna”, “zc” and others have to be ‘faked out’.

Does your pseudo device have a name ???  We’ll put it in the routine exception list.
Carter


> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:19 AM, MING FU <fuming188 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Argus checks the status of the interfaces it captures packet. If an interface is down or not exist, Argus will not read from it. 
> I use Argus to capture from some special device. The device's capture function is wrapped in the PCAP, however, the device is not a typical network interface device. It does not exist in ifconfig. I have to fool the argus to believe that the interface is OK by create a bridge interface and name it the same as the special device presented in PCAP. However, it would be nice have option to disable Argus interface checking code.
> 
> Thanks
> Ming
>