Re: customized ip stack over ethernet

From: Bernhard Kastner (bkastner_at_aon.at)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:23:23 +0200

Sherman schrieb:
> Måns Rullgård <mru@mru.ath.cx> wrote in message news:<yw1xbrfqxmgv.fsf@mru.ath.cx>...
>
>>aldernetworks@gmail.com (Sherman) writes:
>>
>>
>>>My specific question is, how should the application talk to
>>>the ether driver to transmit an ether frame, and get notified
>>>when an ether frame is received? Thanks,
>>
>>raw sockets
>
>
> raw socket is fine but it involves the ip stack in kernel. I would like to
> dis-associate the kernel ip stack with the ether driver, and intercept the
> packets with my customized ip stack, for performance reason. Is there any
> way to do that? Do I have to rewrite the device driver for the particular
> NIC card, or there is any universal driver interface to do that?
>
> - Sherman

you're going to do a LOT of work.
Do yourself a favor and use the kernel IP Stack. I can't imagine such
serious performance issues as that you would have to rewrite the stack ;)

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