perhaps...use a bpf and construct your own packets?

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:02:42AM -0800, village idiot wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I do not know if I ask in the correct forum, but
>anyways, here it comes:
>
>What I want to do, is to call the ATM network device
>driver myself, instead of letting TCP or UDP do it.
>Therefor I am trying to find out how to do excactly
>that. I assume there must be something "between" the
>driver and TCP that lets the layer above call the
>diffrent kinds of network device drivers in a
>standardized way.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a simple way of doing
>what I wish to do? Basically I want to bypass the
>UDP/TCP thing, and call the driver directly. I want to
>call the driver, manipulating structs or whatnot, so I
>can send my own data (strings). 
>
>So far my best guess is that the struct mbuf has
>something to do with this. Basically I could just sum
>it up like this: "I ain't got a clue what to do."
>
>I have a few other questions too if I may. 
>1: Is it the driver that flushes the buffers, and does
>other tedious work? Or is it above layers?
>2: Is it the the driver that splits the IP packages
>into atm cells?
>
>
>Best regards,
>Jon
>
>
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