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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:46:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph 
Message-ID:  <200004270246.WAA45834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200004262326.QAA15823@implode.root.com>
References:  <200004261846.OAA44415@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200004262326.QAA15823@implode.root.com>

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<<On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:26:19 -0700, David Greenman <dg@root.com> said:

>    Except that BPF won't necessarily know the size of the link layer header,

BPF has never needed to know the size of the link layer header.  It's
the BPF application's responsibility to determine the interface type
and emit appropriate filter code to examine and skip over it, as
necessary for the particular application.  (Hint: look at how the
match condition `ip' is implemented in libpcap.)

-GAWollman

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