Re: Snort 2.9.0.3 & Phil Wood's modified libpcap

[Eoin Miller <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com>]

On 2/8/2011 3:06 PM, Weir, Jason wrote:
> Good question, google was not conclusive....
>
> The change file (goes back to 1994) http://www.tcpdump.org/libpcap-changes.txt doesn't mention mmap or ring buffer.
>
> Anyone have definitive proof that the latest libpcap versions have the good stuff included
>
> -J

Just read about the buffer_size environment variable or use -B to
specify it when you do a tcpdump with 4.0.0> using libpcap 1.0.0>.

But also, libdaq handles the buffering for you with Snort 2.9.0.x. Also,
it is required by Snort 2.9.0.x and libdaq requires libpcap-1.0.0 or
higher, probably for this specific reason.

-- Eoin

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