hi Deepankar, >you are supposed to >write whatever you want to (till length len which you gave in skb_put call i dont understand what can i write there? application data is already filled at start of building packet headers at tcp layer.does it corresponds to writing packet came from upper layers? regards, parag. > -----Original Message----- > From: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org >[mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org]On Behalf Of bunty > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:00 PM > To: mohanlal jangir > Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org > Subject: Re: Re: more questions on skbuff allocation > > > > hi , > i already read that articale but it is not having clear >explaination about how actually in kernel it works? > what i am not getting from diagram 3 and 4 is that what exactly has been >put in skb in diagram 4 so that it looks like > | headroom | data area| skb_put area | tailroom > from diagram 3 > | headroom | data area | tailroom > > regards, > parag. > > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 mohanlal jangir wrote : > >Here is an excellent tutorial by Alan Cox > >http://www.tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/net/net-intro.html > > > >Regards > >Mohanlal > > > > > > >