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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>
To:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com>
Cc:        Tom Brown <tomb@heliox.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I write to the /dev/bpf0 interface?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.990331102218.7245A-100000@rodan.syr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3701D495.1857BF9D@cdsec.com>

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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:

> Tom Brown wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone please tell me how to post a packet onto my LAN via this
> > interface.
> 
> You should just be able to write the frame. Make sure everything is in
> network-byte order. You needn't put in a source Ethernet address as that
> will get filled in, but you do need to put in a destination.

Note that this is probably a bug in the bpf implementation.  BPF/the
kernel shouldn't be messing with the packet on a write to a bpf
descriptor.  I've filed a bug report (with patch) that addresses this. 

-Chris



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