From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 21 05:15:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA26476 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hunter.softcon.de (hunter.softcon.de [193.31.11.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA26462 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 05:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.softcon.de (8.6.9/8.6.12) id OAA17372 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 14:17:39 +0200 Received: from boell.softcon.de(193.31.10.71) by hunter.softcon.de via smap (V1.3) id sma017367; Thu May 21 14:17:19 1998 Received: from hunter.softcon.de (torwart.SOFTCON.de [193.31.10.94]) by boell.SOFTCON.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA17968; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:12:17 GMT Received: (from guru@localhost) by mail.sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00271; Thu, 21 May 1998 13:56:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru) Message-Id: <199805211156.NAA00271@hunter.softcon.de> Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter In-Reply-To: <199805210904.CAA03371@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from Don Lewis at "May 21, 98 02:04:35 am" To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, lc001@yahoo.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de (Matthias Apitz) From: Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de (Matthias Apitz) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don Lewis wrote: On May 20, 11:45am, Mike Smith wrote: } Subject: Re: Questions about Packet Filter } } > 2. Solaris seems having a similar soft-driver called "Network } > Interface Tap". Anybody use that before? Can it monitoring both } > incoming and outgoing packages? } } Yes. SunOS 4.x NIT can only look at inbound packets. This is a pain because if you have only one Sun, you can't examine both sides of the conversation. In Solaris 2.x the equivalent feature is called Data Link Provider Interface. I don't know whether it has the same limitation. On SVR4.x the DLPI has this limitation too. matthias -- firm: matthias.apitz@sisis.de [voc:+49 89 61308 351, fax: +49 89 61308 188] priv: guru@thias.muc.de WWW: http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ "We don't care. We don't have to. You'll buy whatever we ship, so why bother? We're Microsoft." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message