On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:22:04 -0500, "Burton M. Strauss III" 
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Arnt Karlsen
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Ntop] ntop port
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> > ..does /dev/br0 work now in ntop?  I seem to remember winding
> > up with listening to either of the 2 bridge nics thru the 3'rd
> > _non_-bridge nic, which _had_ an ip.  ;-)
> 
> > ..to view traffic coming the same way as the firewall sees
> > it, simply watch the bridge's external nic.
> 

> I don't really know - it's sort of the back of my mind talking here...
> 
> I seem to remember that there was a kernel patch in the bridge code. 
> If you didn't have that patch, then the packets were grabbed for the
> bridge before the various filtering and other processes (such as
> libpcap) saw them.  With that patch, the tools saw the packets.
> 
> I don't see it in the 'Patch-o-Matic' at http://www.netfilter.org/,
> not even in obsolete.  Googling for libpcap linux bridge didn't find
> anything obvious.

..could be Linus accepted it for 2.4.21 or -22,

> I guess somebody will have to test this.

..I second that guess.  ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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