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SubjectRe: How to send an IP packet from the kernel

>>I have a dstaddr, srcaddr and the actual data(payload). I need to load
>>IP packet with data(payload) and send the packet out to the net through
>>eth0 .
>>How do I do this from the kernel?
>>
>>
>
> Why not do it from userspace, with lots of available tools (
>http://www.stearns.org/doc/pcap-apps.html ,
>http://www.stearns.org/netreply )?
>
>
For reasons that the driver will do extra stuff on this data and this
data not always will be/must be available to a user space app.
Some data will be available only inside of the driver. No other
processing out of the driver for that data is allowed.

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