On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:18:09AM +0900, Jonathan Khoo spoke out thus: > Hi Kevin, > > I had already looked into that. The thing is that I am confused over the > data portion of packets with the data room in skbuff. It seems to me > that these pointers (head,data,tail,end) are just used for manipulating > the way you would want to insert data (including packet headers, msghdr, > etc) into skbuff. However, just before sending out a normal IP packets, > where would the pointers be pointing at?? That's what I am unsure of. :P Check out Alan Cox's wonderful article on sk_buffs. It explains using diagrams so that you can visualise teh various parts easily. You can find the link from the kernel-docs page. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip @ mindsw.com Mindframe Software --------------------------------------------------------- - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
