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Add sample strace output to illustrate the timeout problem.
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$Id: README.linux,v 1.1 1999/08/31 06:09:25 gram Exp $
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$Id: README.linux,v 1.2 1999/12/29 21:33:06 gerald Exp $
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The standard libpcap compiled for Linux has a timeout problem.
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If you use Ethereal with this libpcap on a not-so-busy network, at
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You can download the Linux patch at http://ethereal.zing.org/~gerald/
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Modified RedHat 6.0 and 6.1 libpcap RPMs are available at
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ftp://ethereal.zing.org/pub/ethereal/rpms
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To illustrate the problem, below is the output of strace on Ethereal
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using a stock version of libpcap, followed by a "fixed" version.
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Note that in the "fixed" version select() is called before recvfrom().
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The use of select() allows the packet capture to time out if there is
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no incoming data.
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30677 08:30:30 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0
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30677 08:30:30 recvfrom(8, "\0\20{\357;\333\10\0 }\200\302\10\0E\0\0(\22\23@\0\377"..., 65535, 0x20, {sa_family=17, sa_data="\10\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\3\6\10\0 }"}, [20]) = 60
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30914 09:05:48 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0
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30914 09:05:48 select(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {0, 250000}) = 1 (in [8], left {0, 250000})
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30914 09:05:48 recvfrom(8, "\10\0 }\200\302\0\20{\357;\333\10\0E\10\5\334-\323@\0\363"..., 65535, 0x20, {sa_family=17, sa_data="\10\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\3\6\0\20{\357"}, [20]) = 1514
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