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Re: [suse-security] af-packet ??
- From: Kevin Ivory <Ivory@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:45:54 +0200
- Message-id: <E17X0vC-0008BF-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
It is a standard Linux module. I don't know exactly what it does
but when I tried to build a minimal SuSE autoinstall disk,
without af_packet the DHCP client wouldn't get an address so it
seems do have something to do with very basic networking.
Kevin
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> 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.
It is a standard Linux module. I don't know exactly what it does
but when I tried to build a minimal SuSE autoinstall disk,
without af_packet the DHCP client wouldn't get an address so it
seems do have something to do with very basic networking.
Kevin
--
_ | Kevin Ivory | Tel: +49-551-37000041
|_ |\ | | Service Network GmbH | Fax: +49-551-3700009
._|ER | \|ET | Bahnhofsallee 1b | mailto:Ivory@xxxxxxxxx
Service Network | 37081 Goettingen | http://www.SerNet.de/
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