Re: RFC: Add multicast reception API to libpcap

[Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com>]

Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > So this is meant to enable receipt of specific multicasts and not 
> > receipt of all multicasts right?  Is that a particularly "pcappy" thing?
>
>
> Correct. I believe it logically belongs with pcap, as it is something 
> which may well be required if using pcap as the link-layer API.

I'm just stuck in the stoneage when pcap was just for packet capture, so things 
added to make it useful as a link-layer API always seem odd to me :)

rick jones
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