disable check for interface health

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Ming,
This is not related to VMWare packet monitoring ???
Carter

> On Apr 13, 2015, at 12:00 PM, MING FU <fuming188 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
> 

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