[tcpdump-workers] Taps compatibility

2006-09-01 Thread Alexander Dupuy
David Moron asked: I want to monitor a Gigabit Multimode(SX) Fiber link. If use a Network Tap then: - Using one SX NIC: Can Libpcap capture packets from TX and RX NIC's connector? - Have I to use 2 different NICs to connect the fibers to the RX connectors and don't use the TX one

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap : Reading from kernel interface

2006-09-01 Thread madhuresh
Guy Harris wrote: madhuresh wrote: Yes you are right. I was mentioning about hostap-driver-0.4.7 which works as a module with linux kernel. (The linux-2.6.17.3 kernel has a drivers/net/wireless/hostap directory. What's the difference between that driver - or any versions from later Linux k

Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap : Reading from kernel interface

2006-09-01 Thread Guy Harris
madhuresh wrote: Yes you are right. I was mentioning about hostap-driver-0.4.7 which works as a module with linux kernel. (The linux-2.6.17.3 kernel has a drivers/net/wireless/hostap directory. What's the difference between that driver - or any versions from later Linux kernels - and the ho