Import libpcap 0.7.1, from

 http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/libpcap/README.linux b/contrib/libpcap/README.linux
index ecd00e8..dd95913 100644
--- a/contrib/libpcap/README.linux
+++ b/contrib/libpcap/README.linux
@@ -68,3 +68,21 @@ file says:
 	  Filtering works on all socket types except TCP for now. See the text
 	  file linux/Documentation/networking/filter.txt for more information.
 	  If unsure, say N.
+
+
+Statistics:
+Statistics reported by pcap are platform specific.  The statistics
+reported by pcap_stats on Linux are as follows:
+
+2.2.x
+=====
+ps_recv   Number of packets that were accepted by the pcap filter
+ps_drops  Always 0, this statistic is not gatherd on this platform
+
+2.4.x
+=====
+ps_rec    Number of packets that were accepted by the pcap filter
+ps_drops  Number of packets that had passed filtering but were not
+          passed on to pcap due to things like buffer shortage, etc.
+			 This is useful because these are packets you are interested in
+			 but won't be reported by, for example, tcpdump output.