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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:29:35 -0800
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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To: "Josef E. Galea" <josefeg@euroweb.net.mt>
CC: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sending IP datagrams
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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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