Re: Sending IP datagrams

[Ben Greear]

Josef E. Galea wrote:
> Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> > On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Josef E. Galea wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there any way, other than socket buffers, to send IP datagrams 
> > > from a kernel module? If yes, can you please point me to some good 
> > > tutorial or sample code
> >
> >
> >
> > See net/core/pktgen.c for an example.
> >
> > -scott
> AFAIK that module uses socket buffers (struct sk_buff) to send the 
> packets. I was asking whether there was another way to send the IP 
> datagrams.

The sk_buf is the thing you send to network drivers, it doesn't get
any more basic unless you are hacking a particular driver and DMA'ing memory
or something like that...

Maybe you should explain what you are really trying to do?

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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