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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:52:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        stt@casper.cpe.ku.ac.th, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem about BPF
Message-ID:  <199709171852.LAA02758@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709160052.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 16, 97 10:22:38 am

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> > 	If I want to send a frame to a BPF device, can I use more than one
> > "write" commands to complete all fields of a packet? (i.e. first write for
> > ether_header and another write for IP packet).
> 
> No.  Each write must be a complete datagram.  Think about it for a 
> moment - how else could the kernel know when you had given it enough 
> and send the packet?

You could "write" 0 bytes.  Wait, no, that's DOS!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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