From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754494AbZFHSrO (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:47:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750725AbZFHSrA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:47:00 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:57441 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750698AbZFHSrA (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:47:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:48:17 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Gil Beniamini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SOCK_RAW does not receive broadcast (with VLAN unless PROMISC) Message-ID: <20090608194817.3baba827@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <91ac27070906081105x30171bedra10d244d382a6934@mail.gmail.com> References: <91ac27070906081105x30171bedra10d244d382a6934@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:05:25 +0300 Gil Beniamini wrote: > Dear Linux Experts, > > My application is using PF_PACKET and SOCK_RAW in order to receive all > Ethernet packets for the machine-unicast MAC plus all broadcast > packets (like ARP broadcast). You need to specify which network card. If you include that information then the best place to ask is netdev@vger.kernel.org. It does indeed sound like you may be seeing a driver funny. Alan