HeartBeat: pcap_stats

ashley thomas athomas at unity.ncsu.edu
Tue Jul 3 20:17:31 PDT 2001


Hi,

I am running bro.0.7a48 on OpenBSD 2.8.

The HeartBeat received packets is not correct. I think it is bacause
the pcap_stats call which the HeartBeat function makes is returning 
the wrong values.

I wanted to confirm this so i ran bro as :

../bro -f "port imap" -i xl0 mt

(the network traffic did not have any imap traffic) but still the received 
packets was showing the total number of packets originally on the network.

This problem is not there when i run bro on Linux (2.2.16)
On linux it gives the correct received packets (but linux has
a bug that it always returns the dropped packets as 0)

Has anyone seen this problem before. Any fixes/suggestions.

thanks a lot
-Ashley



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