Bug 677923 - cannot restart capture after receiving large amount of packets
Summary: cannot restart capture after receiving large amount of packets
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-16 09:51 UTC by Hushan Jia
Modified: 2011-02-16 09:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-16 09:58:09 UTC
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Description Hushan Jia 2011-02-16 09:51:11 UTC 
Description of problem:
tcpdump refused to capture after receiving large amount of packets.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcpdump-4.0.0-3.20090921gitdf3cb4.1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
[root@dell-pet310-02 ~]# tcpdump -i eth4
tcpdump: setsockopt: Value too large for defined data type
[root@dell-pet310-02 ~]# tcpdump -i eth3
tcpdump: setsockopt: Value too large for defined data type

console output:
eth3: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature of device might be broken.
eth3: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature of device might be broken.
eth4: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature of device might be broken.
eth4: promiscuity touches roof, set promiscuity failed, promiscuity feature of device might be broken.


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