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From: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
To: "Beyer, Philipp" <Philipp.Beyer@alliedvisiontec.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: evaluating kernel-mode packet processing (netfilter target extension?)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:59:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACB776E.1090909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96837AF99C543646B54E8DA1A0315D5677B187@ahr-mail.avtnet.local>

Beyer, Philipp wrote:
>  
> Having read some more, I think a bridging network driver could be the thing I'm looking for, although I don't need any bridging functionality at all.
> 
> Could anyone tell me if this concept is reasonable, pragmatic, bad or even impossible:
> 
> - Writing a bridging network driver, meant to be connected only to a single physical NIC.
> - Consuming all UDP packets I'm interested in, managing some buffers inside the 'bridging driver' to be filled with these packets' payload
> - Setting up some kind of streaming to send these buffers to user space
> - Simply passing all 'other' network traffic through the bridging driver.

Have you explored the possibility of using libpcap-mmap or PF_RING for streaming
required packets to user-space?

      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-05 14:56 evaluating kernel-mode packet processing (netfilter target extension?) Beyer, Philipp
2009-10-06 15:34 ` Beyer, Philipp
2009-10-06 16:59   ` Saikiran Madugula [this message]

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