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Submitted by guy_harris Handling extension headers in a libpcap filter currently requires a loop in the BPF program; that can't be done in the kernel, so filtering when capturing won't...

[In the name of God and all that is holy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejected), how is the .Net framework at all involved here? I know of no way in which libpcap or tcpdump should...

> Thank you for preparing this change. It would be very helpful to say in the comments which Linux kernel version is supposed to implement the increased buffer limit. It...

This makes the maximum snapshot length for USB captures much larger. Libpcap currently imposes the limit on the snapshot length it considers valid in capture file, in an attempt to...

> > This makes the maximum snapshot length for USB captures much larger. > > ... > > Correct, and I'm not actually 100% certain if the approach I've taken...

A Google search for [make a github change depend on a change in a different github repository](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=make+a+github+change+depend+on+a+change+in+a+different+github+repository&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) didn't turn up anything that looked easy to do. Presumably the libpcap change...

> > What is the reason the vendor is not allocating an EtherType value? > > I don't know, I am not affiliated with MaxLinear. It is currently not allocated...

> Hi, we have decided that testing against DPDK is more than The Tcpdump Group can reasonably do. In particular: We can do "smoke tests" to make sure that changes...

*Somebody* suggested, at one point, a complete redo of the DPDK code to use a different mechanism, in terms similar to what Stephen Hemming said (for example, I think they...

This adds an extra move of the packet data through a pipe, which seems... suboptimal. Is there a way in Hurd to do a `select()`, or equivalent, that can wait...