* Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010829 13:56] wrote:
> Silly question I could probably figure out myself, but thought it would be
> quicker to ask here...
>
> When listening on an ethernet interface, are the packets you see from
> yourself intercepted inside the network stack, or are you actually
> sniffing them off the wire? I'm helping someone track down corrupted
> packets he's seeing in tcpdump, and I'd like to know if I can locate where
> the corruption may be occuring more exactly.
If you look, I'm pretty sure the tap occurs in ether_input/output,
which means that obviously it is up to the driver to get the packet
to that point unmolested.
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