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From: Manoj Sontakke <manojs@sasken.com>
To: Francis Galiegue <fg@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Packet tapping
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:05:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA0458B.96509EB7@sasken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0109120542330.4681-100000@toy.mandrakesoft.com>

Thanks a lot. I was looking for a pointer. I knew its possible but lost
track of "how".
Thnaks again.
Manoj

Francis Galiegue wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Manoj Sontakke wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >       Is it possible to tap a packet and send it to a userlevel program
> > before it is sent to appropriate receive function (say ip_rcv()). The
> > user level program will give the packet back to the kernel for delivery
> > to appropriate receive function.
> >       In short, is it possible to have a protocol stack (between layer 2 and
> > 3) to be implemented in useland.
> >
> >       Is Tun/Tap driver useful here?
> 
> Isn't the QUEUE driver from iptables done for such cases?

      reply	other threads:[~2001-09-13  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-12  9:32 Packet tapping Manoj Sontakke
2001-09-12  9:43 ` Francis Galiegue
2001-09-13  5:35   ` Manoj Sontakke [this message]

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