Re: SOCK_RAW does not receive broadcast (with VLAN unless PROMISC)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 14:47:18 EST


On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:05:25 +0300
Gil Beniamini <gil.beniamini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Linux Experts,
>
> My application is using PF_PACKET and SOCK_RAW in order to receive all
> Ethernet packets for the machine-unicast MAC plus all broadcast
> packets (like ARP broadcast).

You need to specify which network card. If you include that information
then the best place to ask is netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It does indeed
sound like you may be seeing a driver funny.

Alan
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