Re: [MirageOS-devel] TunTap vs PACKET sockets

[Hannes Mehnert <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/19/2015 13:27, Richard Mortier wrote:
> What's the rationale for / trade-off of using tun/tap vs using packet sockets?

I assume you're talking about socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, _)?  This
seems to be only supported on Linux.

On BSD systems, pcap is responsible for capturing an interface (see
pcap_open_live / pcap_inject).


hannes

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