netdev - Re: twice past the taps, thence out to net?

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Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:58:02 -0500
From:	Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	tcpdump-workers@...ts.tcpdump.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: twice past the taps, thence out to net?

On 11/12/14 11:27, Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> Where in the Linux stack does the tap used by libpcap 1.1.1 reside?
> 

On transmission it's before tso/gso, via dev_queue_xmit_nit(). Taps are
registered in the ptype_all list.

-Benjamin
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