Messages in this thread |  | | From | Thomas Sailer <> | Subject | network drivers and user interface | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:14:34 +0200 (MET DST) |
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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... - 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 from every interface, and I have to filter the packets myself, and this will sure hurt performance if I'm only interested in a slow interface whereas other interfaces are very active... The cause of this question is that I wonder if I should convert the baycom driver, which is currently a TTY driver, to a genuine net driver. This would make it easier to use with kernel AX25, and the network driver interface would be a saner solution than the tty hack, but there must be a solution to use the driver with a userland AX25 stack, therefore I need a method of getting the packets of this driver into userland...
Regards
Tom -- Thomas (Tom) Sailer EMail: sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch Weinbergstrasse 76 Ham Radio: hb9jnx @ hb9w.che.eu CH-8408 Winterthur Phone: ++41 52 222 32 81
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