Re: adding new devices to libpcap

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

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> > > > > "Sean" == Sean Irvine <sairvin () xtra co nz> writes:
    Sean> We have pieces of hardware capable of monitoring various
    Sean> kinds of network links.  This hardware is not configured
    Sean> as a network device (i.e. it is not ifconfig friendly),
    Sean> but we do have Linux drivers to talk to the hardware.

  I do not think that you need to be ifconfig'ed to talk to the packet
capture mechanisms on Linux. Just go read netif_rx() and netif_receive_skb()
in net/core/dev.c. So long as you can call with an skb, you are probably set.

  I'm not sure exactly what it means to be ifconfig-unfriendly - but as long
as you can pretend to be a network device in some fashion, and produce SKB's,
I think you should use the stock interfaces.

]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  firewalls  [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
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