Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: network drivers and user interface | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:04:02 +0100 (BST) |
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> - network device drivers in userland: is there a better way to feed > packets into/out of the kernel to a userland network driver than > converting the packets to SLIP and feeding them into a pty? > I have some DSP boards which could be used as ham radio modems easily > with a driver in userland...
SLIP is pretty efficient but the answer is yes at the moment. I have a driver called psi2 that mostly works how I think god intended it an want to get merged in. I'm happily doing over 1Mbit/second over a SLIP hack 8)
> - the other way round: is there an interface that allows me to get > every packet in raw form of a single network driver? I know the > SOCK_PACKET stuff, but there I get every packet of the specified type
Use bind*() with SOCK_PACKET
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