This patch adds support for our NICs when run in a specialized capture mode.
It is diffed against the current master.
The Myricom Sniffer10G software uses Myri-10G programmable Network Interface
Cards (NICs), a firmware extension, a specialized driver and a user-level
library (libsnf) to enable sustained capture of 10-Gigabit Ethernet traffic.
Small-packet coalescing and an efficient zero-copy path to host memory allow
Sniffer10G to capture streams at line rate for all Ethernet packet sizes.
Optionally, libpcap can be used concurrently by multiple processes on a single
NIC port to partition the incoming traffic across processes. While the Linux
kernel enables this through multiple receive queues, the difference is that the
myri_snf driver cooperates with libsnf to set up multiple queues that are each
independently accessible through user-space.
More information here: http://www.myri.com/scs/SNF/doc
Signed-off-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
If we fail to open it, we just drive on, so it's not a fatal error; yes,
it'll slow us down a little, but it's probably not much, and most Linux
kernels probably have it in any case.
All sections of the file must have the same byte order, so that the
result of pcap_is_swapped() is the same throughout the file; all
interfaces in the file must have the same link-layer type and snapshot
length, so that pcap_datalink() and pcap_snapshot() can return a single
value for the entire file; and all interfaces must have the same time
resolution and offset.
From NetBSD; to quote the checkin comment:
Fix pcap_lookupnet(): reset ifr before SIOCGIFNETMASK. Without
it we get back a bogus netmask.
Presumably some stuff left over in ifr from the previous ioctl confuses
the next ioctl.
Split off the shared-library tests into a separate AC_LBL_SHLIBS_INIT
macro, so the libpcap and tcpdump versions of AC_LBL_C_INIT can be the
same. While we're at it, clean up some of the AC_PREREQ and AC_BEFORE
stuff.
Not all Linux kernels that can support SocketCAN sniffing have
<linux/can/version.h>, and we don't include it directly. We *do*
include <linux/can.h>, so check for that.
Patch changed not to bother checking for the existence of <sys/socket.h>
- we already assume it exists on all platforms that support packet
capture, including Linux. I also changed the Bluetooth "not supported
on this OS" message to look like the one for CANbus, giving the host OS.
Signed-off-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
don't know the netmask. (It also lets you test, at compile time,
whether you can rely on "ip broadcast" failing to compile when you pass
0xffffffff to pcap_compile().)
(255.255.255.255) be an indication that the netmask is unknown, and
return an error. Document that as the way to tell pcap_compile() that
the netmask is unknown. Have filtertest default to that as the netmask,
and add a -m flag to let you specify the netmask.
Don't define DLT_IPOIB with the same value as one of the DLT_USERn
definitions - it's not used, and we don't want to make anybody think
that value belongs to any particular link-layer type.
Guy Harris