On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:56:34PM +0300, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> > When you e.g. have a TCP sniffer it makes sense to only bind it to ETH_P_IP.
>
> For what purpose? To add a small underdeveloped copy of BPF?
Just to have an symmetric API. Everything else is too ugly to explain
in manpages ;)
> To summarize: I wanted to see a patch allowing to detect that
> nobody listens on outpu (or even splitting input and output ptype_all.)
That would require changing/breaking PF_PACKET, no?
-Andi
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