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Re: ns emulator on redhat Linux
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, John Heidemann wrote:
> Although libpcap is available for Linux, ns uses bpf to do packet
> output. bpf is not available for Linux (to my knowledge), so you
> would have to port it.
Oddly enough, this cropped up in end2end-interest discussion yesterday
in a discussion of tcpdump and Why It Sucks For Sniffing Because It
Uses bpf ; bpf is added to the Linux 2.2 kernels.
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/end2end/
L.
"Tcpdump is lame. The main thing that recommends it is that it is
widely available." - Vernon Schryver, winning friends, that thread.
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