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Date:      10 Feb 1999 00:40:40 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, nsouch@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Regarding tcpdump and plip
Message-ID:  <xzpogn3i1s7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:24:01 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <199902092224.PAA08624@usr02.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> > No, I just throw away the fake Ethernet header and put a DLT_NULL
> > header on instead. It's much simpler, and no useful information is
> > lost since the fake Ethernet header in the incoming packet is blank
> > except for the type field, which we reproduce (or rather, translate to
> > AF_INET) in the DLT_NULL header.
> I guess the code is not usable for other address families, e.g. IPV6?

Not that I am aware of. I'll be happy to assist in making the plip
driver IPv6-aware once we get the WIDE/INRIA stack in.

> Otherwise, the AF_INET should probably be copied instead of set
> unilaterally.

Yep.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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