FreeBSD kernel module and sending udp packets

Ferner Cilloniz fernercc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 10:47:21 PST 2008


Hi Julian. I'm very happy for your help. I have read the guide to
netgraph and find it very interesting :)

I still dont understand when you say "you could give your module a
netgraph interface."

Can you please explain this a little more please?

Thanks.

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 00:23 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Ferner Cilloniz wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. I read something about that but I didn't
> > understand what was being said.
> > 
> > Can you please help me in understanding. I have googled for sample code
> > and didn't find anything useful. Can you, or anyone else, please help me
> > understand this?
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/netgraph.html
> 
> > 
> > Thanks again :)
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 00:07 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> Ferner Cilloniz wrote:
> >>> Hello everyone.
> >>>
> >>> I need help with documentation concerning how to send a udp or tcp
> >>> packet from a kernel module. I have found this information for Linux but
> >>> not for FreeBSD.
> >>>
> >>> Please help me.
> >> you could give your module a netgraph interface. Then it can connect 
> >> directly to the ng_ksocket node type and use that. as a nin-kernel socket.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Thank you :)
> >>>
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Cilloniz Bicchi, Ferner

Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
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