Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:39:23 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Da Rock <freebsd-hackers@herveybayaustralia.com.au>, dudu@dudu.ro Subject: Re: [maybe spam] Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility Message-ID: <20110212103923.3098f6b3@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <4D55E015.3010709@freebsd.org> References: <4D54E39D.1000505@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4D54F0B0.7010503@freebsd.org> <4D550300.5090000@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4D5565C7.1010809@freebsd.org> <4D55CE5A.8040902@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4D55E015.3010709@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:19:17 -0800 Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2/11/11 4:03 PM, Da Rock wrote: > > Unfortunately this software uses this family instead of pcap or bpf. > > So when built it errors. > > > > I guess if I am to use this app I will have to rewrite the way it > > uses the network stack. > l2tp runs over UDP packets (port 1701 (like the starship enterprise)) > I have no idea why they want raw packets. > Ther's a sendarp() routine which uses PF_PACKET to directly access the network driver and bypass the stack. Lazy Linuxers who have no idea or don't care that other operating systems exist. -- Gary Jennejohn
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