On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:43:58AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Joe Eykholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It seems like along with the packet being sent up to bpf, there's > > a need for some flags that tell tcpdump about the packet. I haven't > > looked at the current implementation, but in another system, I found > > it useful to add a flag indicating whether the packet was being received > > or transmitted. > > > > Adding a flag indicating that no checksum generation has been done yet, > > but will be done by the NIC, would allow tcpdump to also ignore checksum > > errors on outgoing packets, or it could generate the checksum itself > > if displaying those bytes (in a hex output, e.g.). > > Remember, bpf is used by many things besides tcpdump. Adding these > flags would require extending the bpf API. They couldn't be added for > the default case, because that would break compatibility with other > applications. They'd have to be enabled specifically, by means of a > new ioctl.
You could always just add a flags field to struct bpf_hdr, and hope noone is stupid enough to hardcode the size. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
