gif(4) and bpf(4)

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:20:11PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Is it supposed to work or not ?  If not, does it work on RELENG_5 ?
> My very -CURRENT laptop succeeds in opening bpf(4) on a gif(4) interface.

In a previous existence, I was able to tcpdump on a gif(4) interface;
the tunnel was being used so that I could IPSEC-encapsulate multicast
traffic which was necessary to get past some ISP filters (IPIP was
being dropped at the border).

This was in 5.2.1-RELEASE on a sparc64.

Hope this helps,
BMS