Network Driver From Scrach

[Mandeep Sandhu]

There's a nice write-up about the n/w stack here:

http://media.wix.com/ugd//295986_a3dcb13a2f46d15cb75abab021a239da.pdf

It'll give you a start in understanding how the packet traverses the stack.

-mandeep



On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Robert Clove <cloverobert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I want to first understand and then write a network driver for simple
> Ethernet device (actually instead of inbuilt network driver i want to run
> my network driver).
>
> Actually the new driver should have PF_RING enable/support and Net filter
> usage.
> Although we can copy the driver too but i want to understand some driver
> and write my own so that i get clear understanding about network driver.
>
> Now can you please help me how should i proceed?
> First should i see how the packet flows in the kernel or how should i go
> and please provide some good links to study.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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