From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 21 05:03:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24816 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24781 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au) Message-Id: <199805211203.FAA24781@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA269992214; Thu, 21 May 1998 22:03:34 +1000 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter To: lc001@yahoo.com (C L) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 22:03:34 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980520191129.18098.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> from "C L" at May 20, 98 12:11:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message