Hello Anish, * On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:02:12PM +0530 anish kumar wrote: >> I have been tasked with writing a kernel module to handle an own >> protocol (with an own EtherType) in the Linux kernel. > > are you writing a kernel based sniffer?? Not really. I should take a custom protocol (with its own EtherType) and tunnel it in a specific way to another machine. In this sense: Yes, it is a sniffer. However, as I wrote in my original mail, I used ETH_P_ALL instead of the EtherType I need in order to make sure that I am leaking more memory, so people can see it themselves faster. >> http://www.trikaliotis.net/testmodule/test_kernel.c > > which kernel version are you using and above code would not be sufficient > to find out the problem.Can > you send the above file and makefile as well?? The problem occurrs with different kernel versions, as I wrote in my other mail. It is a 2.6.26-2-686 from Debian Lenny, and a kernel on Ubuntu 10.04, also 32 bit. Unfortunately this machine is currently out of my reach, but I think it is a variant of 2.6.32 or 2.6.33. The Makefile is already there, see the next part of my original message: >> the correspondig Makefile is in >> http://www.trikaliotis.net/testmodule/Makefile >> While it essentially works as I want it to, I found that I am leaking > > if it is sniffer are you getting all the packets??? I would say yes. The fully functional version works as expected, if I neglect the memory leak. Thus, I would expect I get all of the packets I need. Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
