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authorguy <guy>2005-09-07 08:29:17 +0000
committerguy <guy>2005-09-07 08:29:17 +0000
commitbd73c7de4ac7c136cd3dd8f8be9a621f4a09f083 (patch)
treeb9df233bfd5b5600b141b45c729fa66d6280d901
parente48e81475973807f26de1c590ff2802f901010c5 (diff)
Warn about some broken drivers *cough* Broadcom *cough* ignoringlibpcap_0_9rel4
DLIOCRAW and overwriting the Ethertype with the SAP we happened to bind to (the fact that we requested SAP promiscuity nonwithstanding).
-rw-r--r--pcap.38
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pcap.3 b/pcap.3
index aa5939e..2be5697 100644
--- a/pcap.3
+++ b/pcap.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/Attic/pcap.3,v 1.64.2.7 2005-07-07 02:04:35 guy Exp $
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/Attic/pcap.3,v 1.64.2.8 2005-09-07 08:29:17 guy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -689,7 +689,11 @@ supplied to
as the source link-layer address, if the header contains such an
address, might be changed to be the address assigned to the interface on
which the packet it sent, if the platform doesn't support sending
-completely raw and unchanged packets.
+completely raw and unchanged packets. Even worse, some drivers on some
+platforms might change the link-layer type field to whatever value
+libpcap used when attaching to the device, even on platforms that
+.I do
+nominally support sending completely raw and unchanged packets.
.PP
.B pcap_sendpacket()
is like