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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:07:55 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BPF question
Message-ID:  <20010829140755.T81307@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0108291454041.45090-100000@niwun.pair.com>; from silby@silby.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:56:06PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0108291454041.45090-100000@niwun.pair.com>

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* Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> [010829 13:56] wrote:
> Silly question I could probably figure out myself, but thought it would be
> quicker to ask here...
> 
> When listening on an ethernet interface, are the packets you see from
> yourself intercepted inside the network stack, or are you actually
> sniffing them off the wire?  I'm helping someone track down corrupted
> packets he's seeing in tcpdump, and I'd like to know if I can locate where
> the corruption may be occuring more exactly.

If you look, I'm pretty sure the tap occurs in ether_input/output,
which means that obviously it is up to the driver to get the packet
to that point unmolested.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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