Subject: Re: calling the network device driver directly
To: village idiot <village_ldi0t@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/07/2002 21:08:50
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). 

From kernel, or from userland ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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