How to debug ethernet driver ?

[Daniel Baluta]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Ran Shalit <ranshalit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing ethernet network driver.
> I would like to ask if there are any steps which can help when
> debugging ethernet driver, or is it that the first test should already
> involve transmit/recieve packets to/from ip stack ?
>
> Any tips for debugging and testing a new ethernet driver will be appreciated,

You can start by testing the loopback mode (perhaps). Also, use wireshark
or tcpdump for capturing the packets.

Daniel.