POSIX Threads

[Isaac Gelado]

Dan Nelson escribió:
> In the last episode (Oct 29), Isaac Gelado said:
> 
>>I am developing a distributed application based on MICO (mico-2.3.9),
>>which uses Packet Capture Library (PCapLib).
>>
>>In the code, I create a posix thread to execute the pcap_loop
>>function (this function waits until certain number of packets have
>>been captured or infinite if the number is 0). When PCapLib captures
>>a packet and pcap_loop is running it calls to a handle function
>>inside the same thread.
>>
>>This schema is working correctly in a linux machine, so when a packet
>>is captured an CORBA event is sent to clients. But, when the server
>>is running under FreeBSD 5.0, the handle function isn't executed when
>>a packet is received. In FreeBSD the handle function is executed, for
>>each packet, after certain time (maybe when the buffer of PCapLib is
>>full), which is a problem because it sends events too fast to clients
>>so the CORBA event service fails.
> 
> 
> When you called pcap_open_live, what timeout did you set?
> 
I set it to 0, so PCapLib should return the packet inmediatly.

Can the problem be in the PCapLib implementation?

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