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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:38:44 +1300
From: Dmytro Bablinyuk <dmytro.bablinyuk@tait.co.nz>
Subject: Re: How to send an IP packet from the kernel
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>>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.