From: Dmytro Bablinyuk <dmytro.bablinyuk@tait.co.nz>
To: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:38:44 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDD1EB4.3020305@tait.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312142130380.22128-100000@sparrow>
>>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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-15 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 2:11 Dmytro Bablinyuk
2003-12-15 2:31 ` William Stearns
2003-12-15 2:38 ` Dmytro Bablinyuk [this message]
2003-12-16 6:11 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
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