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Re: Interfacing directly to the low level ethernet driver, how??
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Michele Paselli <miguelon at tiscali dot it>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:04:16 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Interfacing directly to the low level ethernet driver, how??
- References: <19489034.1182961244153.JavaMail.root@ps22>
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Michele Paselli wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I'm about to develop a raw ethernet driver. After spending quite a lot
> of time reading the forum and analyzing the code I finally decide to
> implement a raw I/O API as suggested by Grant Edwards here:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2003-06/msg00017.html
What's the point of this? Couldn't you solve your problem by
using RAW sockets?
The reason for asking is just to point out that your ethernet
"wire" will be pretty useless except for whatever raw traffic
you push across it.
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