From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: urs@isnogud.escape.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH]: Pass link level header from/to PPP interface
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:51:04 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080226.225104.175000479.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ygfprv55egs.fsf@janus.isnogud.escape.de>
From: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Date: 10 Feb 2008 10:48:51 +0100
> * Using strace on tcpdump, it seems that libpcap on Linux uses
> PF_PACKET/SOCK_DGRAM for PPP interfaces and thus is not affected by
> my patch.
When given a specific device, libpcap uses SOCK_RAW.
I spent some time seriously considering this change but I
can't because it really can potentially break so much stuff.
Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-27 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-10 9:48 [RFC, PATCH]: Pass link level header from/to PPP interface Urs Thuermann
2008-02-13 6:06 ` David Miller
2008-02-13 16:56 ` Urs Thuermann
2008-02-13 22:53 ` David Miller
2008-02-14 19:02 ` Urs Thuermann
2008-02-27 6:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-02-27 21:08 ` Urs Thuermann
2008-02-27 21:58 ` David Miller
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