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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: divert and ethernet addresses?
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

> 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? 

Yes, it does.

Danny