Re: scan_sys_class_net bug in pcap-linux.c

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Dec 3, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Paul Sheer <paulsheer () gmail com> wrote:

> works for me

Ok, good.

Thanks for noting the "subsystem in older kernels" issue - looking for ifindex is a better idea; in addition to dating 
back to 2.6.0, it's also more strongly associated with being a network interface.

(What we really want is a way to ask for everything on which you can do SIOCGIFINDEX and use the result of that ioctl 
in a bind() call on a PF_PACKET socket, i.e. everything that you can capture on using a PF_PACKET socket.  I guess 
asking for everything under /sys/class/net that has an ifindex property is one way of doing that; perhaps there's 
another way to do that with netlink sockets.)
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