From: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
To: raviraj joshi <raviraj.j1991@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kenel level packet capturing
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:37:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111019123733.GA21324@synalogic.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKj1SsOnYsOXjRBKm+=hTnEiesXrC3h0Q-KN2b61nPSQud9wMA@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/10/19 12:24, raviraj joshi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are making a kernel level packet capture module as a part of our BE project .
> We are finding it difficult to understand kenel networking code.
> We studied structures and functions like sk_buff, netif_rx(),dev_alloc_skb.
>
> However we were not able to trace the actual path a simple packet follows.
You might find
http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2011_slides/jesse_brandeburg_netconf2011.pdf
interesting. It contains call chains of UDP processing at all levels in
the stack (driver, below ip stack, above ip stack) for tx and rx.
-Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-10-19 6:54 ` kenel level packet capturing raviraj joshi
2011-10-19 7:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-19 7:13 ` David Miller
2011-10-19 8:52 ` Ajith Adapa
2011-10-19 12:30 ` Richard Cochran
2011-10-19 12:37 ` Benjamin Poirier [this message]
2011-12-13 12:04 ` raviraj joshi
2011-12-13 18:36 ` David Miller
2011-12-14 10:46 ` raviraj joshi
2011-12-14 13:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-14 16:09 ` David Miller
2011-12-15 15:19 ` Eduardo Panisset
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