Public bug reported:
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).
That worked OK with kernel 2.6.20 (Ubuntu 7.04 with or without VLAN).
Now with kernel 2.6
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SOCK_R
Dear Fabio,
You might call it a bug, or non backward compatible enhancement, the new
behaviour exist since Ubuntu 8.10 upto today (10.04).
It is due to kernel networking enhancement.
In Ubuntu 10.4 we faced also a new issue, which is that many NIC drivers
(i.e e1000) "strip" VLAN-tag, and the only
Dear Fabio,
I assume Lucid is 10.04, then it is reproducable. Gil
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Fabio Marconi
wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better.
> Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
> Tanks in advance.
>
> ** Ch
