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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:21:01 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Subject:   Re: ipfw2 logs to bpf (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw2.c...)
Message-ID:  <20051213182101.GA27569@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200512131759.15695.max@love2party.net>
References:  <200512131216.jBDCG3FJ042136@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051213061503.A10373@xorpc.icir.org> <20051213150858.GL78709@submonkey.net> <200512131759.15695.max@love2party.net>

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:59:07PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> In Basel we talked about a general interface for dumping "interesting" packets
> in order to debug tcp problems etc. ... I am certainly interested in 
> discussing this further and maybe getting some universal API for it into the 
> kernel.  Including tcpdump/pcap support to make sense of the possibly 
> different packet header - if we decide to go this way.

Just as a couple of other examples, It could be interesting to log
packets dropped by dummynet and altq in this way.

	David.



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