On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Mats O Jansson wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Maftoum / Karl Joseph (ISE) wrote:
> > 
> > Question: is there any way of getting bpf support int he linux kernel? 
> > ie. is there a patch?  I managed to get mopd etc compiled withbits from 
> > libpcap , but it fails "no interface" because there is not /dev/bpf* 
> > devices. Or do I have to eliminate the bpf and use the linux low-level 
> > packet driver from libpcap ( a pain) ?
> >
> But a quick hack would be to get ftp://munnari.oz.au/mac/arns.tar.Z and
> extract the pf.c module from it. It supports something called Linux 
> SOCK_PACKET. The interfaces isn't the same but I think it's close enough
> to be a useful start. If you get somthing to work I would like a copy,
> but I don't think I can add it to the distribution due to the copyright
> of the pf.c module.

I've been using linux for a long time and I can say with certainty that
the BPF is not supported, nor AFIK will it ever be supported.  In most
cases an alternative method has been turned up to deal with individual
programs.

I have no concious knowledge of it, but something tells me that sombody on
this list mentioned that mopd had been made to work under linux, back
2-5 months ago.  If your interested I'd recomend searching the list's
archives about that time.

			-James Mitchell