Re: network device driver

[Mal hacker <malhacker@yahoo.com>]

Hello Kirti, 
rather than doing it in kernel space why don't u do in userspace.
There's a lot of tools and libraries available! Take for example
tcpdump, ethereal, dniff and others as tools, libpcap (*nix packet
capturing library) or wincap (windows packet capturing library) and
many more. The kernel also provides a lot of other features via the
socket call to do these stuff. Could u please detail out what exactly
do u want to do and your major reason of getting inside the kernel ?

hope this helps..
mal
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Mehta, Phoram Kirtikumar (UMKC-Student) wrote: >
1. how does ifconfig and netstat get teh net statistics, where can i
get
> the source to that funtion or source file. They are from /proc/net/.
> 2. is there any funtion in the network device driver source by
accessing
> which i can get the packets received or the type of packets. if not
can
> anybody gimme some tips on how can i write it. You can use a packet
filter. > i am trying to write or modify the eth device driver(3c509.c)
in such
a
> way that i can statistics of the traffic and then i also want to
> identify teh traffic. in short i want to incorporate a function in my
> driver which when acceseed would act as a sniffer/protocol analyzer .
> any help or advise will be appreciated. Do it in userspace with
packet filters. Look at tcpdump for example
code. Rasmus

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