Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:45:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: C L <lc001@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter Message-ID: <199805201845.LAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 12:11:29 PDT." <19980520191129.18098.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>
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> Very appreciated if anybody can answer the questions: > > 1. Does BPF support the monitoring of out going packages? how? I know > it can monitor the receiving packages and directly write a new package > into the specified network interface. How about the packages written > by other network or transport protocols? Yes. A simple test would have show you this. > 2. Solaris seems having a similar soft-driver called "Network > Interface Tap". Anybody use that before? Can it monitoring both > incoming and outgoing packages? Yes. > 3. Any similar programming interface in the socket level? No. > 4. How about in HP-UX, Linux, and AIX? Most support something similar. > I may need to port my code to these OSs. Use libpcap, which provides a unified abstraction on top of most of these platforms already. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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