From 896333c57e56c55b22eb3dd9abf9f8f06101239e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:56:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] packet.7: Minor fixes to Carsten Andrich's patch Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/packet.7 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7 index 50858149b..2b1a79aed 100644 --- a/man7/packet.7 +++ b/man7/packet.7 @@ -323,10 +323,11 @@ When a malformed packet is encountered on a transmit ring, the default is to set its status to .BR TP_STATUS_WRONG_FORMAT and abort the transmission immediately (it and following packets are left -lingering on the ring). However if +lingering on the ring). +However, if .BR PACKET_LOSS is set, malformed packets will be skipped, their status reset to -.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE +.BR TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE , and the transmission process continued. .TP .BR PACKET_RESERVE " (with " PACKET_RX_RING )