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packet_mmap  
Does io-pkt support anything comparable to packet_mmap in Linux?  Apparently it is a zero-copy capture scheme, useful 
for snffers.  Exists in Linux kernels 2.4, 2.6 and.2.8.

Description here:

http://lingrok.org/source/xref/linux-2.6-linus/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt


Re: packet_mmap  
Not currently.  The closest is bpf / libpcap.

Regards,

-seanb

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:54:42AM -0400, Dennis Kellly wrote:
> Does io-pkt support anything comparable to packet_mmap in Linux?  Apparently it is a zero-copy capture scheme, useful 
for snffers.  Exists in Linux kernels 2.4, 2.6 and.2.8.
> 
> Description here:
> 
> http://lingrok.org/source/xref/linux-2.6-linus/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
> 
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