[Planetlab-users] Summary of virtual-network related issues

[Sapan Bhatia]

Hi Jawwad,

Can you describe the kind of packets that your application is
generating and that you're trying to capture?

Sapan

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Jawwad Shamsi <jawwadshamsi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a UDP based application which uses libpcap to capture packet
> information. The application was working fine in the previous version of the
> PlanetLab. However, in the newer version of PL, the libpcap application can
> only capture the outgoing packets, while the incoming packets remain
> unnoticed.
>
> Seems like it is related to the virtual network issue mentioned here.
>
> Jawwad
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Sapan Bhatia <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is just to let everyone who's complained about tcpdump not
>> working as expected know of the timeline for a solution to their
>> problem. If there's a deadline coming up for which you'd like any of
>> these accelerated, then please let me know. I'm hopeful that we'll be
>> able to resolve this set of issues in the next couple of days.
>>
>> [TODO]
>>
>> * TCP payloads for accept()ed sockets don't show up in tcpdump, even
>> though headers do
>> * TCP-related ICMP-error messages don't show up on nodes
>>
>> [Already tagged the next RC]
>>
>> * TCP handshakes don't show up in tcpdump
>>  [checked in a vsys module for slices that need this functionality]
>> * TUN/TAP support
>>
>>
>> Sapan
>>
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