Re: linux/net/packet/af_packet.c and PF_PACKET/SOCK_PACKET

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 22:04:05 +0200

PF_PACKET is its own protocol family so you don't need to have IPv4
compiled in to use it. And aesthetics are also important, of course :-)
There is no difference between SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_RAW in PF_PACKET.
There is documentation for it as part of netman which should be released
shortly.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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