[Coral-dev] Printing packet stats: 0 packets received?

[Jeff Terrell]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Ken Keys <kkeys at caida.org> wrote:
> The problem is that libpcap does not report packets recieved or
> dropped when reading from a tracefile, but only when reading from
> a live interface.  This isn't stated in the CoralReef documentation,
> but CoralReef gets the stats from libpcap, so it has the same
> limitation.  (When reading from a live pcap interface, the only
> stats available will be pkts_recv and pkts_drop; the others will
> always be zero.)

Ah...well, that would explain it!  So I guess the problem lies with
libpcap.  If I find some time, I might shoot those guys an email about
it.  I'll keep you all posted if I find anything.

As always, thanks, Ken. :-)

-Jeff T.