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author | fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-06-21 01:36:27 +0000 |
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committer | fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-06-21 01:36:27 +0000 |
commit | 1e8ea467791f99f6068888787c27fd8b6b923d2c (patch) | |
tree | 4bf19d614b784f03cdea171c65cf7b2e9f63715c /contrib/libpcap/README.linux | |
parent | a6bce8883c0f9dd7fee0eb03667f57b40b1d9dab (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-1e8ea467791f99f6068888787c27fd8b6b923d2c.zip FreeBSD-src-1e8ea467791f99f6068888787c27fd8b6b923d2c.tar.gz |
Import libpcap 0.7.1, from
http://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz
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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. |