From: Andreas Schaufler <andreas.schaufler@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how to find out address of gateway if ip packet's destination is outside of the current network ?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:31:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5F6DE9.3070202@gmx.de> (raw)
Dear all,
I just posted this to linux-net, but this list seems to be down. This I
post it again in here hoping that it is not to much off topic.
I am currently porting a backplane networking system to Linux which
shall be able to do IP over PCI,CPCI, VME etc.
Therefore i am currently developing a Linux network driver which is
using some lower level comminications API in order to transport IP
packets between several CPU boards (PPC), which are connected through
the busses mentioned above.
The system is using an internal replacemant for ARP. It is looking for
the destination address in the IP header and looking up the destination
CPU in some internal table where every CPU is accociated with an IP
address. Afterwards the IP packet is sent to this CPU and there it is
put into the IP Stack.
My problem is: If the destination address is outside of the backplane
networking system (some CPU boards can have ethernet plugs) I need to
find out the gateway, which will send the packet to the outside network.
I guessed I could get this information out of void *daddr in the
hard_header function of the net device, but I was not successfull. Is
there a way to solve my problem ?
thank you very much for your answers in advance
best regards
-Andreas
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