#174 pcap_loop stops capturing

[Anonymous]

After running for several days, capturing packets, pcap_loop hangs in the poll() call.

This is running on Debian Squeeze kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64

#0 0x00007ffff6d5c998 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff7f3acd7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.0.8
#2 0x00007ffff7f41f01 in pcap_loop () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcap.so.0.8
#3 0x0000000000417332 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at main.cpp:113

Version 1.3.0 of libpcap.

Restarting the program makes it run normally again.

the program is basically:
while(1){
int r = pcap_loop(descr, 0, got_packet, (u_char*)&info);
}

and got packet does it's stuff with the packet and returns. This is very low traffic interface, so no CPU or memory problems

[Denis Ovsienko]

Administrators of the "libpcap" SourceForge project have superseded this tracker item (formerly artifact 3569206, now bug 174) with issue 177 of the "libpcap" GitHub project.