On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 22:39, Wolfgang Wegner wrote: > Thanks Matti, > > in fact i want the packets to get out of the system, the whole purpose > is to replace a user-space application just taking the packets out of > the driver and stuffing them into the socket. (With all latency and > stuff involved) Is there any reason why you couldn't just use the Linux Socket Filter (aka Berkeley Packet Filter) functionality. There are even libraries that can help with this (like libnet - http://www.packetfactory.net/libnet). Brad -- http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html