I would agree about libpcap.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 11:13 AM Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote:

> On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> > It's a good start :)
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:55:07AM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
> > > I did a proof of concept build a while back using the Android NDK. It
> > > required manually compiling libpcap for networking support but as I
> recall
> > > it was fully functional. I was able to bring up 4.2BSD on a vax780 but
> disk
> > > access was painfully slow. I was running as root so I have no idea how
> well
> > > it would run on a non-rooted phone. So it's certainly possible but
> there
> > > are bugs to be worked out.
>
> I think that trying to get libpcap included would be more effort than it
> is worth since essentially all Android devices don't have a wired network
> connection
> and thus would be left trying to use libpcap over WiFi.  In general, this
> isn't something that works too well.
>
> - Mark
>
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