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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	joris@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bind to protocol with AF_PACKET doesn't work for outgoing packets
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:28:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011101202845.A10648@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011101192153.A30903@wotan.suse.de> <200111011856.VAA27068@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200111011856.VAA27068@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; from kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:56:34PM +0300

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:56:34PM +0300, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > When you e.g. have a TCP sniffer it makes sense to only bind it to ETH_P_IP.
> 
> For what purpose? To add a small underdeveloped copy of BPF?

Just to have an symmetric API. Everything else is too ugly to explain 
in manpages ;)

> To summarize: I wanted to see a patch allowing to detect that
> nobody listens on outpu (or even splitting input and output ptype_all.)

That would require changing/breaking PF_PACKET, no? 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-01 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111010944050.16656-100000@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-01 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-01 15:18   ` Joris van Rantwijk
2001-11-01 16:46     ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-01 17:33   ` kuznet
2001-11-01 17:45     ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-01 18:09       ` kuznet
2001-11-01 18:21         ` Andi Kleen
2001-11-01 18:56           ` kuznet
2001-11-01 19:28             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-11-01 19:48               ` kuznet
2001-11-01  9:11 Joris van Rantwijk
2001-11-02  2:26 ` Edgar Toernig

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