On Tuesday 2008-06-17 05:03, Len Gross wrote: >I have used FreeBSD's Netgraph to successfully develop a unique link-level >protocol. I would like to do a similar thing in Linux and would like to do >the initial implementation in userland. I use Ethernet packets on a >LAN and embed >the protocol inside them. I have to modify outgoing packets and strip out >header/trailers from incoming packets. IP frames need to be passed-up >the stack. > >Would Netfilter be the best way to approach this? If not, what other >LINUX tools make sense\? Netfilter is a kernel component, but you wanted to do an userspace thing. Programs that directly play with the link layer, such as dhcpd, use a PF_PACKET socket. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
