afpacket.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
}