Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:43:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | Francis Galiegue <> | Subject | Re: Packet tapping |
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Manoj Sontakke wrote:
> > Hi, > Is it possible to tap a packet and send it to a userlevel program > before it is sent to appropriate receive function (say ip_rcv()). The > user level program will give the packet back to the kernel for delivery > to appropriate receive function. > In short, is it possible to have a protocol stack (between layer 2 and > 3) to be implemented in useland. > > Is Tun/Tap driver useful here? >
Isn't the QUEUE driver from iptables done for such cases?
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