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From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To: Michael Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Michael Knoll wrote:

> Is there a way to generate an ethernet packet, with an unsupported protocol
> through a user level program?

Yes. Use bpf.

cjs

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