Re: PacketReceivePacket error out on allocating buffer gerater than 4MB

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Pushkar Tiwari wrote:

> I have written a piece of code to capture packets at very high speed. I have writen my code using Packet API.
> To gain better performance I tried allocating large buffer using  "PacketSetBuff" API. PacketSetBuff doesn't return 
> any error on allocating buffer greater than 4MB.
> But when I call PacketReceivePacket  to retrieve the packet, the call fails.
>  
> Is there any restriction on the buffer that can be allocated? Is there some other wy through which we can allocate 
> higher buffer and get the better performance.
>  
> Whats is the kernel buffer size that winpcap allocate by default?

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