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From: Giampaolo Fresi Roglia <gianz@security.dico.unimi.it>
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Subject: [BPF Read and Write] Strange behaviour?
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Hi all,
   I must access to bpf in order to rewrite network traffic from a
   device to another one in both directions; I open 2 bpf descriptors,
   one for every device I must use and I found a strange behaviour:
   when I try to write a packet to bpf, it seems to me the driver drops
   silently some packets, even if the buffer associated with bpf is not
   full.
   I tried my program on FreeBSD 4.7, 4.8 and 5.0 (RELEASE).
   FreeBSD 5.0 behaves correctly unlike 4.7 and 4.8.

   I wonder if I am wrong with something, or if I can use a workaround
   for this...

   I attach part of the code I used to access bpf...
   Thanks in advance.
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