I am using libipq for myself at the moment. SO I can tell you my experiences
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 00:23, Iman Mayes wrote: > I have bee trying to find a way to get access to the source MAC address through use >of libipq. After looking at sources and docs, all I have found is that there is a >hw_addr entry in the ipq_packet_msg struct. I modified the intercept.c program ot >print it out, but whenever I do it comes up null. The other entries that intercept.c >prints out such as indev_name, hook, etc. have actual information. > > 1 - Am I incorrect in assuming that hw_addr is supposed to be the MAC address? If so >where can I get the MAC address from libipq? Yes it definitely is the hw_addr > 2 - Does the MAC address get passed through the queue mechanism? if not, how can I >get the MAC address to a userspace program using libipq or anything else? Yes I do receive the address, but of course only when testing with other computers. (even when I do telnet my_network_card_ip_addr 1111 I do NOT get an hw_addr). BTW: I am using the example ip_queue program, which formerly just accepted any packet. (I took the code and just rewrote the "logic" behind. greetings Lonestar Martin Maurer > > I am sorry if this has been answered before, but I even tried searching on google >and have come up dry. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > BTW, is there a searchable version of this mailing list? > > Iman Mayes
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