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Re: [lwip-users] Getting started with an ethernet driver for linux
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Simon Goldschmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [lwip-users] Getting started with an ethernet driver for linux |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:59:57 +0200 |
Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> > Thanks, where you say it "uses a pseudo network interface that somehow
> > passes raw ethernet packets", what do you mean by "somehow"; is this
> > functionality provided by lwip, or do I need to do the lwip to raw
> > ethernet packet interface?
>
> The unix port uses the TUN/TAP virtual Ethernet interfaces facility of
> the Linux(and others) kernel.
*Or* you could rewrite the winpcap driver from the win32 port and use it with
pcap under linux. That's why I said "somehow", because it doesn't really matter
what method you use to get it into the linux network stack.
Simon