PCAP Open BPF R/W?

[John-Mark Gurney]

Jason Slagle wrote this message on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:58 -0400:
> Could someone consider applying the following to the in tree pcap?  It
> makes it possible to write to the pcap fd to send packets out the
> interface.  Some simulators expect this ability to properly do
> networking..

You should probably add code to fall back to O_RDONLY if the O_RDWR
open fails incase an admin has sent read permissions on /dev/bpfX,
but not write for a group or something.

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