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From: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu>
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Subject: bpf bug?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:17:17 -0500
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I noticed today that when sending a packet through the bpf interface,
the kernel silently resets the ethernet source MAC to the MAC of the
network card doing the send.  My impression was that bpf writes should
go direct to the interface without any edits in the kernel--am I wrong
on this?

-Chris


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