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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
Subject: Re: problem with hook function for DHCP
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:41:31 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:58:44PM -0800, Subhash Gopinath wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am facing problems capturing DHCP packets sent from a client to a server....
> Basically, the hook function (defined below) is not getting called for
> each packet going out of the system.. Any ideas ?

my idea:  DHCP packets are generated and processed at the BPF layer
(which is below netfilter in the stack); and never pass through any
netfilter hooks.

-j

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