Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: Managing lengths of packets with ethertap... | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2000 10:03:53 +1100 |
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In message <001a01bf6ddc$6fed0420$cb884c93@porpoise.icpdd.neca.nec.com.au> you write: > Firstly, I've found several sample uses of ethertap that poll the tap device > with read combinations waiting for packets to be received. If the linux > kernel spits a single packet into that queue (??) then doing a read on > /dev/tap0 will simply grab that packet & squirt it to the other end & the > whole system can assume its one packet.
One read, one packet. Think datagram.
Hope that helps, Rusty. -- Hacking time.
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