Re: [tcpdump-workers] At which level does packet capture take place ?

2011-01-05 Thread Guy Harris
On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Rajagopal Aravindan wrote: > I have always wondered as to at which level packet capture works. > Is it this way ... > > 1. For packets that are sent out, a copy of every packet, given to the > device driver by the protocol layer, would be captured by the pcap libr

[tcpdump-workers] At which level does packet capture take place ?

2011-01-05 Thread Rajagopal Aravindan
I have always wondered as to at which level packet capture works. Is it this way ... 1. For packets that are sent out, a copy of every packet, given to the device driver by the protocol layer, would be captured by the pcap library. 2. For packets that are received, a copy of every packet,