Re: (another) bug in the BPF compiler (wireless)

[Arien Vijn <arien.vijn () ams-ix net>]

Hi,

On 26 Nov 2007, at 19:05, Gianluca Varenni wrote:

> I don't know what the status of the libpcap 1.0/tcpdump 4.0 release  
> is, but I'd like to hold on the release for a day or so.
>
> I've just found (another) bug in the BPF compiler for wireless link  
> types. A simple filter like "link src host 11:22:33:44:55:66" seems  
> to discard all the packets.

Although I do not know much about wireless but in ethernet this would  
be source multicast, which is prohibited.

Kind regards, Arien

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