On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:49 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dbork...@redhat.com> wrote:

> For pcap interoperability, introduce a common link type for netlink
> captures.

What do the link-layer headers for this look like?

> Netlink debugging workflow looks like the following:
> 
> Setup:
>  modprobe nlmon
>  ip link add type nlmon
>  ip link set nlmon0 up
> 
> Capture:
>  tcpdump -i nlmon0 ...

Presumably making that work also involves changes to libpcap to support 
capturing on nlmon devices (so that DLT_NETLINK is returned for them) and, if 
you're not using the -w flag to tcpdump, changes to tcpdump to analyze 
DLT_NETLINK packets.

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