From: Adam Dunkels (adam_at_sics.se)
Date: 2003-10-09 22:44:36
Hi! On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 22:27, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > Spiro and I have actually been in contact quite regularly during his > > well, yes. If I remember correctly, you were the first one being told what I > had in mind. :-) Cool :-) > > porting the TFE emulation to *nix. The problem with the tap device is > > that it doesn't exactly provide the same functionality as the pcap > > libraries. The tap device basically creates a virtual LAN, while the > > pcap gives direct access to the physical LAN (the one on which the PC is > > connected to). > > Adam, Uz proposed using RAW Sockets and gave me some hints for this. Do you > know of *BSD has these, too? Ok, great! Yes they are in BSD, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few differences between Linux and BSD though... Uz: is it possible to send raw Ethernet frames using raw sockets? I quickly checked the BSD TCP/IP stack bible yesterday (TCP/IP Illustrated volume 2 / Stevens, amazing book!) and I didn't see anything obvious, but the book is a couple of years old and I just looked quickly. > > Under FreeBSD it might be possible to use the BPF (Berkeley Packet > > Filter) to get the same kind of access as the pcap library under > > Windows, but I don't know if this is available under Linux. > > BPF are not available natively. Anyway, libpcap uses them and "ports" them > to Linux. Ok - then is probably isn't possible to send frames using Linux BPF either :-( > > I think that most old-school *nix gui developers actually hate the term "user" ;-) > > "User? We don't need any user." :-) Allright - GI developers perhaps is a better name then ;-) /adam -- Adam Dunkels <adam_at_sics.se> http://www.sics.se/~adam/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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