Chapter 7. Networking Tapset

Table of Contents

netdev.receive - Data recieved from network device.
netdev.transmit - Network device transmitting buffer
tcp.sendmsg - Sending a tcp message
tcp.sendmsg.return - Sending TCP message is done
tcp.recvmsg - Receiving TCP message
tcp.recvmsg.return - Receiving TCP message complete
tcp.disconnect - TCP socket disconnection
tcp.disconnect.return - TCP socket disconnection complete
tcp.setsockopt - Call to setsockopt
tcp.setsockopt.return - Return from setsockopt
tcp.receive - Called when a TCP packet is received
udp.sendmsg - Fires whenever a process sends a UDP message
udp.sendmsg.return - Fires whenever an attempt to send a UDP message is completed
udp.recvmsg - Fires whenever a UDP message is received
udp.recvmsg.return - Fires whenever an attempt to receive a UDP message received is completed
udp.disconnect - Fires when a process requests for a UDP disconnection
udp.disconnect.return - UDP has been disconnected successfully
ip_ntop - returns a string representation from an integer IP number

This family of probe points is used to probe the activities of the network device and protocol layers.