From: aifsair@gmail.com (François)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Send packets from userspace program to kernel interface
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:39:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160816093931.7xpww34nhq4io33w@sith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADmdLE8a0e7FXtmRiUGVKSP=y8dkJ9rLepQvP2WP3KoVK01iKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:30:56PM -0700, Bhaskar Upadhyayula wrote:
> Hello All,
Hi!
> A colleague suggested looking at Tuntap interfaces. I did a quick
> research and it did not appear that can be done.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers for further reading will be very
> helpful.
I also think tun/tap will do the work you need.
I did not properly understand what exactly you want to achieve.
Anyway, have a look on that tutorial on tun/tap [1]. It's a great
overview of what you can do with this facility.
[1] http://backreference.org/2010/03/26/tuntap-interface-tutorial/
Best regards,
Fran?ois
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-16 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-16 6:30 Send packets from userspace program to kernel interface Bhaskar Upadhyayula
2016-08-16 9:11 ` Alan Liddell
2016-08-16 9:39 ` Gadre Nayan
2016-08-16 17:45 ` Bhaskar Upadhyayula
2016-08-16 17:42 ` Bhaskar Upadhyayula
2016-08-16 19:56 ` Alan Liddell
2016-08-16 9:39 ` François [this message]
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