From: Tom Roberts <tjroberts@lucent.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: HELP: Linux Net Driver confusions
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 16:28:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <393D6CF8.EC5D5777@lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 393C11DD.1EDA3EC1@lucent.com
Tom Roberts wrote:
> I am trying to write a network driver [...]
> In particular, I am trying to use non-ethernet headers, and cannot
> get the kernel to deliver a ping packet (ICMP protocol) back to the
> ping program even though the driver delivers the packets OK. BUT --
> essentially the same driver does seem to work on PowerPC linux....
Thanks to Jonathan Brauer, I got it to work.
Remarkably, the value in skb->protocol is in network byte order,
not the natural byte order of the current CPU. So changing:
skb->protocol = ETH_P_IP;
to:
skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_IP);
made it work.
Note that the PowerPC byte order is the same as network order,
which is why it worked on the PowerPC but not the i586.
[sent to both c.o.l.dev.sys and linuxppc-embedded
because I queried both.]
Tom Roberts tjroberts@lucent.com
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2000-06-06 21:28 ` Tom Roberts [this message]
2000-06-06 21:52 ` HELP: Linux Net Driver confusions Dan Malek
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