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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:32:26 +0200
From:      Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
To:        Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>
Cc:        Tom Brown <tomb@heliox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I write to the /dev/bpf0 interface?
Message-ID:  <3702400A.9D62AB77@cdsec.com>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.990331102218.7245A-100000@rodan.syr.edu>

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Christopher Sedore wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> 
> > Tom Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone please tell me how to post a packet onto my LAN via this
> > > interface.
> >
> > You should just be able to write the frame. Make sure everything is in
> > network-byte order. You needn't put in a source Ethernet address as that
> > will get filled in, but you do need to put in a destination.
> 
> Note that this is probably a bug in the bpf implementation.  BPF/the
> kernel shouldn't be messing with the packet on a write to a bpf
> descriptor.  I've filed a bug report (with patch) that addresses this.
> 

It probably isn't the bpf code that is doing this, but the NIC driver
code...

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