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Re: ethernet driver


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:23 +0000, ram kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In io/eth/doc/driver_doc
> 
> Under the topic “Calling graph for Transmit and
> Receive” it is written that 
> 
> “Foreground task calls into network stack to send a
> packet”. 
> 
> If a user wants to do the same operation, through its
> application code. Then what could be the way? 
> 
> Means in place of stack or “Foreground task”, I want
> to transmit data (raw data without any format of
> tcp/ip) myself. 
> 
> I am asking this b’coz , all the test cases in “net”
> package are based on “socket”, and I only want to use
> Ethernet port, without going for “tcp/ip or BSD”
> stack.

Why?  What are you trying to accomplish?

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