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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lizhenhua.dev@gmail.com
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, mirqus@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A pure virtual nic
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:48:24 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103.214824.1395410287552500660.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEk7JKa-H=7oHjU-A1z8aNUZxd3TkJpBmwwrp4zWmZ_i2SQ+Tg@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <lizhenhua.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:07:08 +0800

> When a program sends out a packet, at start_xmit function. it will
> unpack it and packet again with HTTP proxy headers, then give it to
> the actual physical ethernet adapter.
> When it receives a packet, unpack it and remove the http proxy
> headers, and then put it back to the queue in kernel.

A netfilter module is a much more appropriate way to implement this.
You can even implement this kind of packet mangling in userspace using
nfqueue.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-29  3:12 A pure virtual nic Zhen-Hua Li
2011-12-29  9:19 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-12-30  1:51   ` Li, Zhen-Hua
2011-12-30 15:44     ` Ben Greear
2012-01-04  2:07       ` Li, Zhen-Hua
2012-01-04  2:48         ` David Miller [this message]

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