Re: libpcap MMAP, Shared Memory version?

[Jon Schipp <jonschipp () gmail com>]

Do the recent tcpdump releases use the shared memory functionality of
the newer libpcap libraries?
Basically, if I download the latest tcpdump and the latest libpcap and
compile them on FreeBSD and on Linux, and then run the binary, will I
get the speed advantages of mmap()?

Or are there other things that I have to do, tcpdump/libpcap or maybe
OS related?

Thanks
Jon

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Jon Schipp wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans for a shared memory libpcap version from you guys?
> > I know that there are some other that have modified libpcap to use mmap()
> > such as Phil's: public.lanl.gov/cpw
> >
> > I was just curious to whether you guys have anything
>
> Yes, we have some things called "libpcap 1.0" and "libpcap 1.1". :-)
>
> Support for both Linux and FreeBSD memory-mapped capture has been in libpcap since 1.0.
>
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