Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: raw network packets | Date | Sat, 29 May 1999 10:11:17 +0200 |
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In muc.lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: >I receive packets from my fieldbus driver. I want to do the >protocol-stuff in userland. How can I pass the raw packets up to a >socket created by a userland application? >of cause I would like to limit my coding to the driver module and keep >my fingers away from the original kernel files. > >I guess it must be something about skb->mac.raw, skb->nh.raw and >skb->h.raw. > >But I do seem to need to register a protocol type with the network core >so my packets would not get droped. Is this right? What else do I need >to get my packets though to userland with minimal effort?
Such a facility is already builtin - SOCK_PACKET (2.0)/PF_PACKET (2.2). There you can bind to L2 protocol types.
-Andi
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