From: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
To: Kevin K <k_krieser@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org,
Linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sending raw packets via PPP
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:30:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18103.44797.529894.786033@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kevin K's message of 6 August 2007 17:45:39
Kevin K writes:
> Is it possible to send raw packets via ppp under Linux?
>
> More specifically, in 2.4 series kernels such as RH's 2.4.21-47 kernel?
>
> I've trying to modify the DHCP 3.0.1 code provided with RH 3 so I can
> send requests via a PPP connection (standard RS-232), and it is just
> being dropped by the stack according to ifconfig and debug statements
> in ppp_generic.c.
I'm not sure what sort of "raw" packets you're talking about (IP raw
or something else), but you shouldn't need to send any raw packets to
do this. DHCP runs over UDP, and, unlike Ethernet, there's no link
layer addressing to worry about.
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 22:45 Kevin K
2007-08-06 23:30 ` James Carlson [this message]
2007-08-07 0:24 ` Kevin K
2007-08-07 0:32 ` Christopher Fowler
2007-08-07 10:33 ` James Carlson
2007-08-07 8:46 ` Matt Keenan
2007-08-07 10:30 ` James Carlson
2007-08-07 16:53 ` Kevin K
2007-08-19 23:46 ` Kevin K
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