On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 10:30, Joerg Schilling wrote:
RAW network access has been implemented by Sun in 1986 with:
Reverse ARP Boot Protocol daemon
Etherfind (a precursor of Snoop) ... the programs where the ideas have been copied as "tcpdump"
Sadly, that doesn't count as prior art, sorry. If it was Free Software, you might have a case, or if they exported the raw interface via an API - was that done?
Cheers,
Alex.