On 01/31/11 20:22, b. f. wrote:
Da Rock wrote:
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I've been chasing the answer to a FreeBSD version of this (approx.
anyway), but I needed to find out what exactly PF_PACKET was first.
Finally found this answer here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4659
I looked up man socket and I can
Da Rock wrote:
...
> I've been chasing the answer to a FreeBSD version of this (approx.
> anyway), but I needed to find out what exactly PF_PACKET was first.
> Finally found this answer here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4659
>
> I looked up man socket and I can see possibilities (in my mind
"In recent versions of the Linux kernel (post-2.0 releases) a new
protocol family has been introduced, named PF_PACKET. This family allows
an application to send and receive packets dealing directly with the
network card driver, thus avoiding the usual protocol stack-handling
(e.g., IP/TCP or I
