This flag adds variable to disable offloading detection. The effect
of the flag is to avoid to transmit auxiliary data at each packet.
This could result in a potential performance gain.
This patch modifies the RunModeSetLiveCaptureAuto() prototype to
be able to detect that a 'threads' variable (telling how much
threads must listen to one socket in IDS mode) has been used
in the configuration file. It then print a warning message
if this is the case.
Previous commits have considerabily empowered the "single" mode which
could contain multiple threads. This behaviour was not a target for
this runmode and the following patch remedies to the situation by
introducing the "workers" mode where each thread do all the tasks
from acquisition to logging. This runmode is currently implemented
for af-packet and pf-ring.
A devide configuration can be used by multiple threads. It is thus
necessary to wait that all threads stop using the configuration before
freeing it. This patch introduces an atomic counter and a free function
which has to be called by each thread when it will not use anymore
the structure. If the configuration is not used anymore, it is freed
by the free function.
This patch adds multi interface support to AF_PACKET. A structure
is used at thread creation to give all needed information to the
input module. Parsing of the options is done in runmode preparation
through a dedicated function which return the configuration in a
structure usable by thread creation.
This patch handles the end of AF_PACKET socket support work. It
provides conditional compilation, autofp and single runmode.
It also adds a 'defrag' option which is used to activate defrag
support in kernel to avoid rx_hash computation in flow mode to fail
due to fragmentation.
This patch contains some fixes by Anoop Saldanha, and incorporate
change following review by Anoop Saldanha and Victor Julien.
AF_PACKET support is only build if the --enable-af-packet flag is
given to the configure command line. Detection of code availability
is also done: a check of the existence of AF_PACKET in standard
header is done. It seems this variable is Linux specific and it
should be enough to avoid compilation of AF_PACKET support on other
OSes.
Compilation does not depend on up-to-date headers on the system. If
none are present, wemake our own declaration of FANOUT variables. This
will permit compilation of the feature for system where only the kernel
has been updated to a version superior to 3.1.
Eric Leblond
Anoop Saldanha