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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:51:27 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] BPF to support directions and more
Message-ID:  <200702151651.35631.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070215091702.GD20957@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <200702141805.20228.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20070215091702.GD20957@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:17 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:05:15PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > I was playing with some BPF ideas for few days and I added two
> > new features.  SEESENT flag is extended to see only outgoing
> > packets, which is analogous to libpcap's PCAP_D_OUT direction. 
> > Thus SEESENT is now called DIRECTION.
>
> Any plans to teach BPF to report the direction a packet goes in?
> In some cases it can be unobvious whether it's incoming or
> outgoing.

No, not at the moment.  You can work around it by using the patch 
though.  Capture incoming packets with BPF_D_IN and outgoing packets 
with BPF_D_OUT.  If you want to merge them back, you can use mergecap 
utility from Wireshark.

Jung-uk Kim



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