From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Josef E. Galea" <josefeg@euroweb.net.mt>
Cc: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sending IP datagrams
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:29:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <422CFFFF.2010501@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422CF779.6030508@euroweb.net.mt>
Josef E. Galea wrote:
> Scott Feldman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 7, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Josef E. Galea wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any way, other than socket buffers, to send IP datagrams
>>> from a kernel module? If yes, can you please point me to some good
>>> tutorial or sample code
>>
>>
>>
>> See net/core/pktgen.c for an example.
>>
>> -scott
>>
> AFAIK that module uses socket buffers (struct sk_buff) to send the
> packets. I was asking whether there was another way to send the IP
> datagrams.
The sk_buf is the thing you send to network drivers, it doesn't get
any more basic unless you are hacking a particular driver and DMA'ing memory
or something like that...
Maybe you should explain what you are really trying to do?
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-07 23:48 Sending IP datagrams Josef E. Galea
2005-03-08 0:42 ` Scott Feldman
2005-03-08 0:53 ` Josef E. Galea
2005-03-08 1:15 ` Scott Feldman
2005-03-08 1:29 ` Ben Greear [this message]
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