Module Name: src
Committed By: ozaki-r
Date: Wed Nov 30 06:02:37 UTC 2022
Modified Files:
src/sys/net: bpf.c
Log Message:
bpf: support sending packets on loopback interfaces
Previously sending packets on a loopback interface via bpf failed
because the packets are treated as AF_UNSPEC by bpf and the loopback
interface couldn't handle such packets.
This fix enables user programs to prepend a protocol family (AF_INET or
AF_INET6) to a payload. bpf interprets it and treats a packet as so,
not just AF_UNSPEC. The protocol family is encoded as 4 bytes, host byte
order as per DLT_NULL in the specification(*).
(*) https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html
Proposed on tech-net and tech-kern
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.248 -r1.249 src/sys/net/bpf.c
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