netdev - Re: csum offload and af

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Message-ID: <20080813013741.GA30120@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:37:41 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...eo.de, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, anthony@...emonkey.ws,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: csum offload and af_packet

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:25:06PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Alexey was maintaining his own semi-fork of libpcap and tcpdump for
> years for the same reasons.

He had a whole suite of things, some of which are now finally
making it into the mainstream distros.

> Let's write a real packet capturing tool that will be fast and that we
> can add quick support for new kernel features to.
>
> I mean, what other alternative is there?  The pcap/tcpdump folks have
> had 10+ years to get their act in gear.

Maybe we could start from Alexey's code base.

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