Re: [ECOS] Interfacing directly to the low level ethernet driver, how??

["Michele Paselli" <triguelon@gmail.com>]

Could you plase be more precise? I don't thing I got your question, I
thought that the version of FreeBSD on eCos didn't implement RAW
sockets. Or at least that's what I understood from previous threads
here. Am I wrong?

Thanks,

Michele



On 6/28/07, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
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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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