Re: libpcap : Reading from kernel interface

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:48 AM, madhurag () iitk ac in wrote:

> I wish to use hostap (a driver for wireless cards) + libpcap +  
> tcpdump to
> bring some extra details of the packets in the user space.

What sort of extra details?

> I wish to know that how libpcap reads the packet from the kernel/ 
> interfaces.

The only "hostap driver" I know of is the one in Linux.  In Linux,  
libpcap reads the packet from a PF_PACKET socket.

> For my purpose, i have to implement an interface in the hostap code  
> (which
> i shall be registering with the kernel).

Why do you have to implement a separate interface?

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