Hi,
af_packet (where af stands for Adress Family) is a low level packet interface and is for example used by sniffers like etherreal, tcpdump...
HTH
Christoph
23.7.2002 16:45:54, Kevin Ivory
Gunther Stammwitz wrote: something that is being called "af_packet".
I have never heared this before and would like to ask if someone on the list knows what this means. -- .-. Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum /v\ L I N U X Lehrstuhl fuer Biophysik // \\ >Penguin Computing< c/o Christoph Wegener /( )\ Gebaeude ND 04/Nord ^^-^^ D-44780 Bochum, GERMANY
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