[ILUG] Re: tcpdump and CONFIG_PACKET modular

[Niall O Broin]

On 14 Feb 2006, at 10:08, Pádraig Brady wrote:

>> Found it (af_packet) - go back to sleep :-)

Couldn't sleep Padraig?

> Strange core functionality like that is a module?

That's what I thought too.

> I wonder is it is it using CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP?

Yes, it is.

> I wrote a packet capture app 3 years ago now using af_packet,

I'm using libnids and libpcap - no idea if either of those uses 
af_packet to do their thing, though I suspect they must if the app. 
won't work without loading the af_packet module.



Niall