[Click] userlevel fromdevice

Eddie Kohler kohler at CS.UCLA.EDU
Tue Nov 2 14:15:06 EST 2004


I'd like to keep it so that FromDevice can be compiled with or without 
-lpcap, is all.  (Also, pcap doesn't always use the most efficient way 
of getting packets out of the kernel.)  It'd be OK if FromDevice used 
pcap when it was available.

Eddie


On Nov 2, 2004, at 11:10 AM, John Bicket wrote:

>
> Is there a reason why userlevel fromdevice in linux doesn't
> use libpcap?  I was wanting to use bpf functionality but had
> to change fromdevice to compile with libpcap.
>
> --john
>
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