Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261946AbVCHBRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:17:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261344AbVCHBRG (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:17:06 -0500 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:57473 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262000AbVCHBQl (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:16:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <422CF779.6030508@euroweb.net.mt> References: <422CE853.8070603@euroweb.net.mt> <9b84705fe7666dfbbf1782ca85ae2ae0@pobox.com> <422CF779.6030508@euroweb.net.mt> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3fc8879e89b758404ca32cf68739698b@pobox.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Scott Feldman Subject: Re: Sending IP datagrams Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:15:33 -0800 To: "Josef E. Galea" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 683 Lines: 19 On Mar 7, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Josef E. Galea wrote: > 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. Well the network device driver wants a sk_buff (hard_start_xmit) so you'd need to modify the network device driver to accept something else if you don't want to use sk_buffs. What's wrong with sk_buffs for your problem? -scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/