I apologize if people out there has spent as much time as I have today checking and verifying my claim. It seems I was premature in saying that there exists a limit for -f. I've concluded that certain syntax combinations of -M and -R resulted in my erroneous accusation.
Regards, Tor I. Skaar On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tor Inge Skaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > Anyone here had any issues with the length of filters used by nfdump > 1.5.7? I know the manpage states that there isn't any limits, but I > believe there is. > > I have a filter consisting of 17655 characters (as calculated by wc -m) > on the form (ip x.x.x.x and port xxxxx) or (ip x.x.x.x and port xxxxx) > or ...etc. > > When I run nfdump as shown here; > > nfdump -R router01/2008/12/02/nfcapd.200812021200:nfcapd.200812021800 -f > <path_to_filter_file> > > it is as if nfdump totally ignores it. If I remove some characters, > getting the total number below or equal to 17627, everything works > perfectly. > > This issue would seem to be specific to the -f option only, because if I > take my 17655-chars filter and append it directly as an argument, the > filter is correctly applied. > > Could someone else please confirm this, or perhaps I've got some > gremlins in my server :) > > Regards, > > Tor I. Skaar > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkk1vV0ACgkQ6kzbtNj+3wMCWwCdFatbDH9+4MWpP6a0JhJ5xQKw > L6wAoLsUBcI7BBuoRRr5hG6YBbUlKul7 > =QSKP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Nfsen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nfsen-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss
