On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Aamir Shaikh wrote:
Aamir,
I think all packets are queued to the network device from the protocol
stack in
--------
int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
in
net/core/dev.c
--------
(I assume you use IP).
I would also encourage you to look at Linux network QOS implementations.
You might be able to do what you want to do without modifying
the kernel.
There is a excellant web page which describes this at
http://qos.ittc.ukans.edu/
Hope this helps
Ravi
> Hi,
> I need to access each and every packet that my host is sending out on
>the network. For this I need to know which function and file is used by
>the network device driver before it sends the packet to the wire.
>I need to put some delay into this code so that the sending of packets
>is delayed somehow. I'm using Linux redhat 6.1 kernel version 2.2.12-20.
>
> Any kernel hackers around here ??
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
> Sincerely,
> Aamir
>
>
> ashak@mailcity.com
>
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