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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.

  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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