If you're interested in ethertap, sheep_net, and TAP/TUN, you might try the mac on linux (MOL) message archives at www.maconlinux.com/lists/index.html.
While you're there check out their great logo: http://www.maconlinux.com/mollogo/mol_top.gif Laters, Nick >Check out the ethertap device in the linux kernel for generation of raw >ethernet frames. > >Programs like BasiliskII (Apple Macintosh Emulator) can use the ethertap >device (tap0). This allows a MacOS TCP/IP stack within BasiliskII to write >to the datalink layer and bypass the internal TCP/IP stack used by the >general linux system. Basilisk also ships with "sheep_net" kernel module >you can compile to do something much like what you get with ethertap. > >check out netlink support (CONFIG_NETLINK) and CONFIG_ETHERTAP in the >kernel as config options. > >Ethertap is degraded as it is being replaced by TAP/TUN. More >Info: >http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/networking/ethertap.txt.html > >Hope this is what you are looking for. > >-ME > >-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >Version: 3.12 >GCS/CM$/IT$/LS$/S/O$ !d--(++) !s !a+++(-----) C++$(++++) U++++$(+$) P+$>+++ >L+++$(++) E W+++$(+) N+ o K w+$>++>+++ O-@ M+$ V-$>- !PS !PE Y+ !PGP >t@-(++) 5+@ X@ R- tv- b++ DI+++ D+ G--@ e+>++>++++ h(++)>+ r*>? z? >------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ about: http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html > Systems Department Operating Systems Analyst for the SSU Library > >On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ganesh Subramaniam wrote: >> I have 'nt got into details of Linux tcp/ip architecture. Can someone tell >> me how coupled is the socket layer in linux with its native tcp/ip stack. Is >> it possible for me to make the linux socket layer bypass the native tcp/ip >> stack and communicate with some other layer (say another tcpip >> implementation) , without affecting the existing applications. Would >> appreciate some pointers,discussions on this subject. >> >> Thanks a lot ! >> Ganesh > >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
