Re: Patch for Endace DAG card support in libpcap

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

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:06:54AM +1200, Jesper Peterson wrote:
> An alternative to this would be to implement a more generic runtime
> dispatcher possibly through function pointers in struct pcap_md. We
> (Endace) would be willing to implement such a dispatcher if preferred.

That would be nice, as it could support other capture mechanisms
(various types of pods, etc.) although, given that your patch supports
building a libpcap that handles both the native capture mechanism and
DAG, I wouldn't require it before checking it in.

It looks as if you implemented my second suggestion in an earlier
thread, i.e. "if the device has a name beginning with 'dag', assume it's
a DAG device rather than a network device", which should also work with
the remote pcap stuff.  Is it the case that DAG devices have names
starting with "dag"?
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