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Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:39:49 -0700
From: rajat swarup <rajats@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rajat swarup <rajats@gmail.com>
To: "J. Scott Kasten" <jscottkasten@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: sending ICMP messages in kernel module
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On 5/7/05, J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> rajat swarup wrote:
> 
> >I have placed a netfilter hook in which I grab the packets in the
> >pre-routing stage.
> >I need to send ICMP messages in response to certain messages in this hook.
> >I looked at alloc_skb(), skb_reserve() and skb_put() functions but it
> >is still not clear to me as to how to construct the packets using
> >these methods.
> >Since I am getting the packets in the Pre-routing stage should I
> >explicitly construct the MAC header, IP header & data & ICMP message?
> >Also, I'll need to calculate the checksum to be transmitted in the
> >ICMP packet...which method could I use to do that?
> >
> >
> 
> I had a similar problem once.  In the icmp.c file, look at how the ping
> echo reply works.  That is as close to a tutorial as you will find in
> the code.  I think you might find it strait forward from there.
>

Hi Scott,
I am trying to send ICMP messages but not in reply to anything else.
We have to generate ICMP messages from scratch.
So we do not have access to an existing sk_buff structure that has all
the parameters already set.
icmp_echo(struct skbuff*) assumes that you already have the sk_buff
structure and you are just assigning a few more fields.
Do you have an idea about how can we create ICMP messages from scratch?

Thanks for the help!

-Rajat.
http://rajatswarup.blogspot.com/
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