From: "Abhishek Joshi" <ajoshi@email.arizona.edu>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Link Layer header
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:56:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003301c36b53$af7b8030$0adf8796@brahma> (raw)
Hi All,
> My doubt is ----In function ip_build_xmit , when ip is setting up skb
> header,it is using skb_reserve(skb,hh_len),which i guess is for setting
> up a headroom in skb for Link layer header.After coming out of this
function
> it is calling dev_queue_xmit().Out here also after certain processings it
> is forwarding the skb struct to hard_start_xmit() function of the device
> driver and in the book it says that hard_start_xmit() function sends the
> header.
> So, could u please tell me where particularly , kernel is adding Link
> Header.
rgds
abhi
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