> ethernet and everything else) . But i recently read in a couple of man
> pages and in documentation that SOCK PACKET is going to be obsoleted(
> SOCK PACKET is what LPF uses..) .And there are places in the document
It became AF_PACKET, SOCK_* and a whole proper socket family.
> anything else that replaces the functionality of Linux Paket Filters and
> the SOCK packets. Some man pages advice referring to packet(4) which is
> a filter but is veryhigh level filter which filters on Broadcast or
> multicast and all packets to the machine .I am looking for a mechanism
> that replaces this SOCK packet with about the same amount of
> functionality.
The filters btw work on any kind of socket. You can even push them onto
things like mailserver or webserver tcp sockets. Very handy for anti DoS
handlers
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