Any idea to why tcpdump reports "packet truncated" on some of the packets I
collect with the PF_RING?
Our MTU is 1500 so it can't be the snap-length of 8192.

Thanks
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> Jon
> we have limited as with PF_RING 3.x the ring had fixed slices of "snaplen"
> thus having 64k was exhausting the memory pretty quickly. Probably with
> PF_RING 4.x/5.x this limit could be removed as slices have dynamic size
>
> Luca
>
>
> On 09/28/2011 04:08 AM, Jon Schipp wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm was just curious to why the tcpdump application that comes with PF_RING
> has a maximum snap-length of 8192 bytes.
> Can this be changed? How would I do it? Recompile it with a specific
> option?
>
> I'm getting ready to do some testing at work and I need to use the full
> 65535 bytes to test with my pre-PF_RING stats so I can see the differences.
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Thanks
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