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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 12:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: divert and ethernet addresses?
Message-ID:  <199705121915.MAA28346@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970511151454.39414@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "May 11, 97 03:14:54 pm"

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> 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?

No, unfortunately.. divert is an IP level mechanism (wheras BPF is
an interface and hardware level mechanism).

BPF does let you write, but you can't stop incoming packets from
being received (ie., you just get a copy, there's no way to actually
"divert" them..)

-Archie

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