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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 11:39:01 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: divert and ethernet addresses?
Message-ID:  <199705130209.LAA12415@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970512101815.52772@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "May 12, 97 10:18:15 am"

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Charles Henrich stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > 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, although for some unknown reason libpcap opens the bpf device 
readonly.  I don't think I ever got a response last time I asked why...

>        Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

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