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>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
    Guy> On Mar 24, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Michael Richardson wrote:

    >> okay, but there is more than just in/out.
    >> 
    >> enum pcap1_probe {
    >> INBOUND  =1,
    >> OUTBOUND =2,
    >> FORWARD  =3,
    >> PREENCAP =4,          /* IPsec ? */
    >> POSTDECAP=5,
    >> };

    Guy> ...and perhaps, on at least some systems, for inbound packets, supply
    Guy> "received unicast/received broadcast/received multicast/received
    Guy> promiscuously" indications (Digital UNIX has broadcast, multicast, and
    Guy> promiscuous bits - presumably if none are set it's received
    Guy> unicast or it's outbound), IRIX has a "received promiscuously"
    Guy> flag, and Linux supplies a 

  I think that these may be bits, and certainly are orthogonal to the 
probe point. So, we need some kind of additional flags.

  Do these need to be in every packet?  Maybe it is just meta-data that
needs to be added at the beginning, perhaps along with the filter code.

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