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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 22:03:34 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        lc001@yahoo.com (C L)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Questions about Packet Filter
Message-ID:  <199805211203.FAA24781@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980520191129.18098.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> from "C L" at May 20, 98 12:11:29 pm

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In some mail from C L, sie said:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 2. Solaris seems having a similar soft-driver called "Network
> Interface Tap". Anybody use that before? Can it monitoring both
> incoming and outgoing packages?
> 
> 3. Any similar programming interface in the socket level? 
> 
> 4. How about in HP-UX, Linux, and AIX?
> 
> I may need to port my code to these OSs.

What sort of packet filter are you writing that you want to port your
software to all of these ?  Sounds like you may have written a lot of
code without doing any research about what you're writing it for...

Darren

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