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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:18:15 -0400
From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: divert and ethernet addresses?
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On the subject of Re: divert and ethernet addresses?, Brian Somers stated:

> > Is there anyway to get a divert that sees the full ethernet packet so work can
> > be done based on the source/destination ethernet addresses?
> 
> This is what /dev/bpf* are for AFAIK.  But I've never had the
> pleasure of doing anything tcpdump'ish.

Yea, but does /dev/bpf allow you to write to it? 

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich