Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:38:44 +1300 | From | Dmytro Bablinyuk <> | Subject | Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel |
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>>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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