Hi,
Anyone has investage this issue already ? Since for the right now,
implement a Network Card Device Driver is not a hard problem.
(My PCI Driver will finish soon).
Regards,
Hilary
Ranieri Argentini wrote:
> > For the Networking Issue, is that EDLC Protocol need to implement ?
> >Is that we send IP Data directly to Network Chip ?
>
> Actually i have no idea.
> I momentarily use a linux PF_PACKET socket to do my I/O. I finally managed
> binding this thing to an interface (e.g. eth0) and use a single native
> method to read info from that socket.
> The way i'm thinking about this is that the network interface layer
> assembles an ethernet 802.3 frame and then in some magical way (i.e.
> through a device driver that might be either Java or native) gets it onto
> the network.
> I am not making any assumptions yet as on how this exactly will work.
> The thing i would like most is of the form
>
> NE2000EthernetDriver.write(byte[]) or (on a slightly higher level)
> NE2000EthernetDriver.write(EthernetPacket);
>
> Hope this sort of cleared it up ...
>
> RA.
>
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