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Re: [PATCH?] Fix sniffing of ARP replies

To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH?] Fix sniffing of ARP replies
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:55:29 -0700
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 01:48:47 +0200
Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It looked to me like that it is not intentional that ARP replies are not
> delivered to the sniffer - from your reply it looks to me like that
> only allowed user  of whole packet_type, not only af_packet_priv member,
> is AF_PACKET, and that for correct functionality af_packet_priv member
> must be non-NULL.

I relooked at this, and you may have a point.  Let me study
this some more.

Thanks.

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