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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 1996 17:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dev Chanchani <dev@trifecta.com>
To:        Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BPF
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961007172810.12452A-100000@www.trifecta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961007134406.8277D-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu>

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Chris,
I looked at the tcpdump source code and did not find what I was looking 
for. It must be in there somewhere, guess I will take another gander.

As well as Stevens Programming Books (I have the Network Programming), 
would that be BSD specific (deal with /dev/bpf?)

Thanks,
Dev

On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Chris Timmons wrote:

> 
> man pcap
> man tcpdump
> 
> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/tcpdump/tcpdump; more *.c
> 
> :)
> 
> This is a very good start.  Stevens TCP Illustrated v1 and possibly v2
> might also be of interest to you. 
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Dev Chanchani wrote:
> 
> > I was doing some tinkering with the /dev/bpf device.
> > 
> > My understanding is that reading from the bpf device gives you a raw dump 
> > of the data over the network.
> > 
> > You will have a bpf header (18 bytes?)
> > Then I need to know the ip_offset for packets comming
> > in over the ed1 network interface so I can start calculating
> > how much traffic is going to what address based on the ip header.
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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