Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Eric Perie <ericp@eicon.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: LKM and libnet library
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905271251460.16577-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5854E0C731A0D211B30400805FFED54101194D2C@montreal.eicon.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Eric Perie wrote:

> I would like  to use the libnet library with either FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE for
> forging
> ethernet frames with arbitrary physical source addresses.
> (testing purpose only...)
> 
> http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet/
> 
> As stated in the documentation I need to compile a new version of
> if_ethersubr.c and
> to load it as a LKM: BPF is overiding the physical address provided in the
> packet it is
> getting from the write() system call with the one of the network adapter.

And this is a problem?  This is normal, expected behavior.  Most ether
cards I know of can't override the source Ether address.

I could be wrong.

> I did compile the code for the KLM module successfully, I have added LKM
> support in my
> kernel, but modload is displaying an error message related to the format of
> the ether_spoof.o file
> I am trying to load.

LKMs are deprecated.

Did you try the libnet port?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.03.9905271251460.16577-100000>