Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap's usbmon interfaces vs. usb ethernet devices

2009-03-19 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:01 AM, Romain Francoise wrote: Subject: [PATCH] Change USB device prefix to 'usbmon' Ethernet USB devices (supported by the usbnet driver in Linux) are by default named 'usbX', which is also what libpcap uses for its usbmon pseudo-interfaces. To avoid this namespace conf

[tcpdump-workers] libpcap's usbmon interfaces vs. usb ethernet devices

2009-03-19 Thread Romain Francoise
[I sent the following yesterday but it didn't reach the list so I'm resending with a different from address.] Hi, There's an unfortunate namespace conflict between the usbnet driver in Linux and libpcap's usbmon pseudo-interfaces: both use usbX names, which leads to surprising results when trying