Subject: Re: Broken bpf in -current
To: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@magma.del.ufrj.br>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/22/1999 10:28:21
>I am having problems with bpf applications over PPP. They appeared
>first after I upgraded my i386 boxes to 1.4E ELF, but they're still
>around with 1.4G (sources from 1999/07/20). This problem is most
>annoying because it interferes with the ability to define filters
>that would properly drive a dial-on-demand configuration with pppd.
>As the problems affects both tcpdump and pppd, I thought it could
>be in libpcap. I am not sure, however, that is there, and not in
>kernel bpf driver itself, so I decided to post this message before
>sending a possibly misleading PR to the wrong group. I tried to
>track it down, but I really lack the time and knowledge.
Are you able to capture packets on ethernet properly? I believe
this is tcpdump issue or libpcap issue, not ppp issue.
Could you send me your pcap expression so that I can immitate
your environment?
itojun