From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <kernel@pacrimopen.com>
To: Dmytro Bablinyuk <dmytro.bablinyuk@tait.co.nz>
Cc: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:11:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071555087.8101.1.camel@menion.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FDD1EB4.3020305@tait.co.nz>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-16 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-15 2:11 How to send an IP packet from the kernel Dmytro Bablinyuk
2003-12-15 2:31 ` William Stearns
2003-12-15 2:38 ` Dmytro Bablinyuk
2003-12-16 6:11 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer [this message]
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