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> >
> > tcpdump uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
>
> Because that API is obsolete, and Linux does not want to support it
> forever.

I'm sorry, I'm terribly ignorant. Is there some documentation on how to
update programs that use this API to the 2.2 method (eg. what is the 2.2
method)? I wrote a program for sending gratuitous ARP requests using
SOCK_PACKET under 2.0 and I'd like to redo it for 2.2.

thanks,
-bp

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B. James Phillippe		. bryan@terran.org
Software Engineer, WGT Inc.	. http://www.terran.org/~bryan


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