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Subject: PCAP Open BPF R/W?
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Could someone consider applying the following to the in tree pcap?  It
makes it possible to write to the pcap fd to send packets out the
interface.  Some simulators expect this ability to properly do
networking..

Jason

--- pcap-bpf.c.old      Sat Oct 25 11:56:32 2003
+++ pcap-bpf.c  Sat Oct 25 11:49:10 2003
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
         */
        do {
                (void)snprintf(device, sizeof(device), "/dev/bpf%d", n++);
-               fd = open(device, O_RDONLY);
+               fd = open(device, O_RDWR);
        } while (fd < 0 && errno == EBUSY);

        /*


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