Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel

From: William Stearns
Date: Sun Dec 14 2003 - 21:34:04 EST


Good morning, Dmytro,

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, 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 )?
Cheers,
- Bill

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