From: Spiro Trikaliotis (trik-news_at_gmx.de)
Date: 2003-10-09 22:27:03
Hello, On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:24:26PM +0200, Adam Dunkels wrote: > Spiro and I have actually been in contact quite regularly during his well, yes. If I remember correctly, you were the first one being told what I had in mind. :-) > excellent work with the TFE emulation, and we've just been discussing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thank you. > porting the TFE emulation to *nix. The problem with the tap device is > that it doesn't exactly provide the same functionality as the pcap > libraries. The tap device basically creates a virtual LAN, while the > pcap gives direct access to the physical LAN (the one on which the PC is > connected to). Adam, Uz proposed using RAW Sockets and gave me some hints for this. Do you know of *BSD has these, too? > Under FreeBSD it might be possible to use the BPF (Berkeley Packet > Filter) to get the same kind of access as the pcap library under > Windows, but I don't know if this is available under Linux. BPF are not available natively. Anyway, libpcap uses them and "ports" them to Linux. > I think that most old-school *nix gui developers actually hate the term "user" ;-) "User? We don't need any user." :-) Cheers, Spiro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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