Re: SOCK_RAW does not receive broadcast (with VLAN unless PROMISC)

[Patrick McHardy]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Gil Beniamini <gil.beniamini@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:05:25 +0300
>
> > My application is using PF_PACKET and SOCK_RAW in order to receive all
> > Ethernet packets for the machine-unicast MAC plus all broadcast
> > packets (like ARP broadcast).
>
> > That worked OK with kernel 2.6.20 (Ubuntu 7.04 with or without VLAN).
> >
> > Now with kernel 2.6.28 (Ubuntu 9.04) it works OK only without-VLAN,
> > but with VLAN the application receive only packets for the
> > machine-unicast MAC, but no broadcast (like ARP broadcast) packets,
> > only if I set the socket to PROMISC mode, I start receive also
> > broadcast packets.

Which driver are you using? Are you sniffing on the VLAN device
or on the underlying device?

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