[ECOS] Temporary IP address assignment trick

[Grant Edwards]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 04:07:09PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> > Is there a way to tell the stack to receive and turn over to
> > the application any packet with a matching MAC address?
> 
> There is no bpf which will make this hard. It might be possible
> with raw sockets.

I had assumed that it would take some stack-hacking, but if I
could open a raw socket and ask to receive any packets with an
Ethernet protocol type of IP, then it may be possible to do
this from the application level.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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