From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 1:43:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linif.org (www.linif.org [204.228.204.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A76937B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dotslash@linif.org) Received: (qmail 17819 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2001 08:43:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cpu563) (195.229.53.43) by www.linif.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2001 08:43:25 -0000 Message-ID: <00fa01c0ce2c$d51a7e20$2903010a@atg.altayer.com> From: "dotslash" To: "fq" Subject: a bit of libpcap explanation Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:41:56 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi. i'm looking for some explanation of libpcap. i'm no coder therefore source code won't help me. i've searched in google and found way too much reference (65,000 links!) for libpcap. basically i just want to find out if setting up a firewall (ipfilter) on the same system as where a NIDS is installed would affect the job of the NIDS. i'm using snort for my NIDS. "So to be quite precise, it's just the kernel of the OS" -- Bill Joy, (http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-11/joy_01.html) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message