On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Rick Payne (Offshore) < ri...@rossfell.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On 17 Aug 2017, at 06:43, Rick Payne (Offshore) <ri...@rossfell.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > Does carp run on Freebsd or is it just OpenBSD? That has to solve a > similar issue, namely sending announcements to a multicast address on a > particular interface. I’ll investigate that to see if there is a more > bad-friendly way to do this. > > An alternative is to use libpcap - is that supported? I don't remember what libpcap uses on Linux. Please try :-) If I remember correctly (I have't touched this stuff in two decades ;-)), libpcap was implemented on BSD using a "BPF" (Berkeley Packet Filter) bytecode language. I don't think we ever made any effort to make this work on OSv, and looking now at the code, it seems to be #if 0'ed out, so it will take some work to revive. > I see a userspace implementation of ‘carp’ that does it that way - uses > pcap_open_live() and then sends raw frames (l2 header up) to the socket > returned by pcap_fileno(). > > Rick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osv-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
