2005-03-02 14:24:40

by BZ Benny

Subject: Module Vs app?

Hi,

I have an app wich run in the user space.
I want to create a virtual network device for catching
data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer.
I want to creaate such a second eth0.

I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h
but how can we do that from the user space?

regards
benny






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2005-03-02 14:36:30

by Paulo Marques

Subject: Re: Module Vs app?

BZ Benny wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an app wich run in the user space.
> I want to create a virtual network device for catching
> data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer.
> I want to creaate such a second eth0.
>
> I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h
> but how can we do that from the user space?

I think you want a TUN device.

Read Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt

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