Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:18:27 +0100 (CET) | From | Joris van Rantwijk <> | Subject | Re: Bind to protocol with AF_PACKET doesn't work for outgoing packets |
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On 1 Nov 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > Joris van Rantwijk <joris@deadlock.et.tudelft.nl> writes: > > So... Shouldn't dev_queue_xmit_nit() also process ptype_base then ?
> It probably should, but unfortunately then it would loop back to all normal > protocols (IP, IPv6, ARP etc.) too, which would not be good.
Ah, right. I suspected there was a good reason not to do it, or it would have been done ages ago.
But it's still a bit weird isn't it ? You sure won't find this in man packet(7).
Thanks for explaining, Joris van Rantwijk.
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