On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:50 AM, "David Laight" <david.lai...@aculab.com> wrote: > >> How are you going to tell whether a feature is present in a non-Linux >> kernel ? > > The Linux memory-mapped capture mechanism is not present in a non-Linux > kernel, so all the libpcap work involved here would, if necessary on other > platforms, have to be done differently on those platforms. Those platforms > would have to have their own mechanisms to indicate whether any changes to > filter code, processing of VLAN tags supplied out of band, etc. would need to > be done. > > The same would apply to other additional features of the Linux memory-mapped > capture mechanism that require changes in libpcap.
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