[Click] _iters_per_os in routerthread

Ian Rose ianrose at eecs.harvard.edu
Mon Mar 22 11:48:38 EDT 2010


Hi Seth,

Although that's certainly useful for me to know in general (thanks for 
the pointer!), I don't think it applies in this case because FromDevice 
always enables IMMMEDIATE mode and as I understand that bug report it 
only applies when bpf is *not* in IMMEDIATE mode.

- Ian


Seth Hall wrote:
> 
> On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> 
>> That is quite weird.  Here's how pcap dispatching is supposed to work.
>>
>> - When the fd is selected, pcap_dispatch() is called.
> 
> 
> There is a bug with nonblocking libpcap in released versions of 
> FreeBSD.  That could be a contributing factor.
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=143855&cat=
> 
>   .Seth
> 
> ---
> Seth Hall
> Network Security - Office of the CIO
> The Ohio State University
> Phone: 614-292-9721


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