Re: Zeek and myricom NICs

Justin Azoff <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:03:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.detection.bro
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 9:38 AM Seth Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

There are some advantages to using the Myricom plugin directly.
> Generally in my opinion I've been trying to avoid libpcap wrappers for
> quite a few years now because of various quality issues associated with
> several of them that I've experienced.
>

A few years ago I found a bug in the snfv3 shipped libpcap where pcap_next
would return the previous packet when no packets were available instead of
returning NULL.  As far as I know it's still not fixed.

-- 
Justin

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