On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:05:42 -0500 (EST) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alan's suggestion of leaving the physical address in /sys appeals > > the most to me, honestly. One thing though, libpcap will need to > > rifle through /sys and then store that address, so its serialization > > has to be changed no matter what. Unfortunately, I'm wholly ignorant > > as to what syntax it uses and how extensible it is. > > Alternatively, libpcap can ignore the issue and just display the device > numbers, as it does now. A separate program or the user could convert > the number to a physical address, if necessary, using the information > in sysfs. I thoght that people sometimes saved the traces and replayed them on other machines, which obviously have their own /sys or even run Windows or iOS. -- Pete
