[Winpcap-users] On win32, how to increase kernel buffer size more than 128

[Santosh Karankoti]

Hi,

 

My machine windows XP (win32) gets the voice traffic of more than 250 Mbps
at NIC from a switch. Basically, my NIC was at 100 Mbps and the port on the
switch is also the same. I am developing an app to use winpcap lib to read
packets from my NIC and write it to file. I also ran parallel wireshark to
check performance of my app. When my app and wireshark running both at a
time on my machine, I could clearly see that the packets were getting lost.
This was at the time when the traffic was 100 Mbps. When my app was trying
to read 100 Mbps packets rate I could clearly see that not all the packets
were read and most of the packets were lost by my app but in wireshark I
could see all the packets in sequence, thought the limit of 100 Mbps is
reached, I increased the link to be 1Gig at switch port and my NIC. Now the
100 Mbps is ok. 

 

I increased the load to receive 150 Mbps, which almost was very equal to the
wireshark capturing, was fine there. When I jumped to 200 Mbps and (max) 250
Mbps traffic. 

Here I again encountered the packets are getting lost. Now this time when I
compared with wireshark, there I could see clearly that it did not had some
of the sequence packets and it did not mention or say that the packet
segmentation lost. 

 

Might be that the packets are genuinely lost at the switch or the winpcap
library kernel buffer is getting overflown at this limit. At the switch the
port is 1Gig bit, seems like no issue from the switch port. Found that the
winpcap has limit of 128 MB kernel buffer size in the 32 bit. I ran the same
in the 64 bit machine, got the same issue there also. But its limit there
seems to be 128 GB. Not sure whether these values are correct or not. 

 

My next alternate is to try increasing the winpcap kernel buffer size for 32
bit. I don't want to try new things with 64 bit machine. I saw some thread
to use 

 

BOOLEAN PacketSetBuff(LPADAPTER AdapterObject, int dim) function.

 

But where I can I find complete details of where can I find this function in
which file of Winpcap file and details of the library name, file name, dll
name. FYI, my app uses v4.0.2 winpcap. A quick response with some helpful
stuff is appreciable.

 

Thanks,

    SIPSantosh.

 

 

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