capturing the netlink socket on Linux From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:29:31 -0400 Please correct my understanding. The libpcap/pcap-netfilter-linux.c file is about capturing NFLOG packets from the netlink socket, i.e. ones that came from netfilter's --log target. On the other hand, we have: /* * Link-layer header type for the netlink protocol (nlmon devices