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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] IPv6 packet parsing

-[ Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 03:52:07PM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann ]----
> > > Or do you mean using Bigarray.map_file on the whole
> > > raw ring buffer and handle it without pcap help?
> 
> Without knowing details: maybe no copy is required at all? The pcap ring
> buffer could be directly wrapped as Bigarray.

Yes that's what I was trying to say.
Unfortunately, such implementation would be hard to maintain
(Linux capture ring buffer have already several implementations, to say
nothing about supporting other OSes).
Ideally, I'd like to pass const pointers to packet bytes provided by
libpcap to user callbacks up to bitstring through OCaml (say via a
sufficiently large int type?).