Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel

From: Joshua Schmidlkofer
Date: Tue Dec 16 2003 - 01:12:38 EST


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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