Does RHEL have support for AF_PACKET V2 and/or V3 ?

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Issue

  • We want to deploy Corvil Sensor and need to know if our kernel supports AF_PACKET v2 or v3.
  • I am trying to confirm whether AF_PACKET v2 or v3 is currently supported in the kernel that comes with RHEL?
  • Requirement for Corvil Sensor application attempting to run on the server
# grep -x 'CONFIG_PACKET=[ym]' "/boot/config-$(uname -r)"
CONFIG_PACKET=y

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 (3.10.0-693.2.2.el7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (2.6.32-573.35.2.el6)

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