From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 9 15:40:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27338 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27325; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id AAA05032; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 00:40:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Terry Lambert Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip References: <199902092224.PAA08624@usr02.primenet.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Feb 1999 00:40:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:24:01 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert writes: > > No, I just throw away the fake Ethernet header and put a DLT_NULL > > header on instead. It's much simpler, and no useful information is > > lost since the fake Ethernet header in the incoming packet is blank > > except for the type field, which we reproduce (or rather, translate to > > AF_INET) in the DLT_NULL header. > I guess the code is not usable for other address families, e.g. IPV6? Not that I am aware of. I'll be happy to assist in making the plip driver IPv6-aware once we get the WIDE/INRIA stack in. > Otherwise, the AF_INET should probably be copied instead of set > unilaterally. Yep. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message