Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 07:38, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:
> >>I have a dstaddr, srcaddr and the actual data(payload). I need to load 
> >>IP packet with data(payload) and send the packet out to the net through 
> >>eth0 .
> >>How do I do this from the kernel?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >	Why not do it from userspace, with lots of available tools ( 
> >http://www.stearns.org/doc/pcap-apps.html , 
> >http://www.stearns.org/netreply )?
> >  
> >
> For reasons that the driver will do extra stuff on this data and this 
> data not always will be/must be available to a user space app.
> Some data will be available only inside of the driver. No other 
> processing out of the driver for that data is allowed.


You trying to back door a driver or something?   You might look at AFS
kernel modules. http://www.openafs.org.  They do many things in the
kernel, and i think that some IP communications is one of them.  [But
don't quote me]

js