What happens after a packet is captured?

Question

I\'ve been reading about what happens after packets are captured by NICs, and the more I read, the more I\'m confused.

Firstly, I\'ve read that traditionally, after a pa

Answer 1

take a look at this paper, http://www.ece.virginia.edu/cheetah/documents/papers/TCPlinux.pdf it might help clearing out some of the memory management questions