Re: [tcpdump-workers] Where does libpcap get the incoming network

towards the kernel driver? Thanks! > Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Where does libpcap get the incoming network > data? From the driver? > From: schne...@net.in.tum.de > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:40:21 +0100 > To: tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org > > Hi, > > that depen

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Where does libpcap get the incoming network data? From the driver?

Hi, that depends on the OS. > 1. Does libpcap obtain incoming packet data from the nic's driver or from > somewhere else? > 2. Does libpcap obtain outgoing packet data from the linux IP layer or from > somewhere else? Actually it is in between. What happens is that libpcap requests a PF_PACKE

[tcpdump-workers] Where does libpcap get the incoming network data? From the driver?

Hi, Two quick questions: 1. Does libpcap obtain incoming packet data from the nic's driver or from somewhere else? 2. Does libpcap obtain outgoing packet data from the linux IP layer or from somewhere else? thanks! - This is the tcpdump-workers list.