Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:18:04 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixes for tcpdump with LPIP encapsulation Message-ID: <1119.892585084@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:47:50 %2B0200." <17850.892507670@verdi.nethelp.no>
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>I fixed the problem with the link layer type by defining a *new* link >layer type (DLT_LPIP). This seems to me to be the cleanest solution >(alternatives: remove the two byte header and use DLT_RAW, or expand it >to four bytes, and use DLT_NULL). Unfortunately it's also the solution >which touches the most files (changes needed for libpcap and tcpdump). >Thus I'd like to have some comments from the good people on -current on >whether this is the correct way of solving the problem, before I feed >the changes back to the tcpdump/libpcap maintainers. I think using DLT_NULL or DLT_RAW is preferable. Changing tcpdump and libpcap for the sake of LPIP really seems like overdoing it to me... Thanks for the attention to this neglegted child of mine... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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