Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel | From | Joshua Schmidlkofer <> | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:11:27 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 07:38, Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote: > >>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.
You trying to back door a driver or something? You might look at AFS kernel modules. http://www.openafs.org. They do many things in the kernel, and i think that some IP communications is one of them. [But don't quote me]
js
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