From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 19:09:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21013 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 19:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA20991 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 19:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA12415; Tue, 13 May 1997 11:39:02 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705130209.LAA12415@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: divert and ethernet addresses? In-Reply-To: <19970512101815.52772@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "May 12, 97 10:18:15 am" To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:39:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[