netdev - Re: [RFC, PATCH]: Pass link level header from/to PPP interface

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Message-ID: <ygfzlu3744o.fsf@janus.isnogud.escape.de>
Date:	14 Feb 2008 20:02:47 +0100
From:	Urs Thuermann <urs@...ogud.escape.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH]: Pass link level header from/to PPP interface

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> Can tcpdump and libpcap already handle PPP properly?

Yes, with the (admittedly non-serious) limitation, that both, tcpdump
and tcpdump -e don't show the PPP header.  I don't remember how
tcpdump behaved on BSD in this respect (so many years ago), but I
think libpcap will use the DLT_PPP link type on BSD, which has the PPP
header.

urs
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