2017-12-19 13:16:39 +01:00

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Go

package sniffer
import "fmt"
// Computes the block_size and the num_blocks in such a way that the
// allocated mmap buffer is close to but smaller than target_size_mb.
// The restriction is that the block_size must be divisible by both the
// frame size and page size.
func afpacketComputeSize(targetSizeMb int, snaplen int, pageSize int) (
frameSize int, blockSize int, numBlocks int, err error) {
if snaplen < pageSize {
frameSize = pageSize / (pageSize / snaplen)
} else {
frameSize = (snaplen/pageSize + 1) * pageSize
}
// 128 is the default from the gopacket library so just use that
blockSize = frameSize * 128
numBlocks = (targetSizeMb * 1024 * 1024) / blockSize
if numBlocks == 0 {
return 0, 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("Buffer size too small")
}
return frameSize, blockSize, numBlocks, nil
}