From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Pei Zheng" <zhengpei@msu.edu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: an IP stack problem regarding routing and ARP
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:59:14 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010923185914.C2048@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LIECKFOKGFCHAPOBKPECEECGCLAA.zhengpei@msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <LIECKFOKGFCHAPOBKPECEECGCLAA.zhengpei@msu.edu>; from zhengpei@msu.edu on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:56:14PM -0400
Em Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:56:14PM -0400, Pei Zheng escreveu:
> If a Linux box has 2 NICs, I would like to generate some packets in the
> kernel, sent them out from one NIC to an Ethernet switch, and then
> receive them on the other NIC. Is it possible, with the help of appropriate
> routing table, routing rules and ARP configuration? Or the kernel IP
> stack must be modified? It seems to me that if the kernel figures
> out that a packet's next hop is its local network interface, it will
> deliver to that interface through IP stack directly.
look at snull in Rubini's ldd2, available as FDL (iirc) at www.oreilly.com
- Arnaldo
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2001-09-23 21:56 an IP stack problem regarding routing and ARP Pei Zheng
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