kernel network

[Julian Elischer]

Gerry Weaver wrote:
> _____  
> 
> From: Ferner Cilloniz [mailto:fernercc at gmail.com]
> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Sent: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:49:55 -0600
> Subject: kernel network
> 
> Guys,
>   
>   I do not think I could ever be more tired of this topic but I cannot
>   seem to understand what to do. I have tried more about a month now to
>   send arbitrary UDP packets from a kernel module but cannot achieve it. I
>   have looked at udp_send but found that building a socket* was much to
>   tedious. Later i looked at in-kernel webservers
>   (http://openketa.sourceforge.net/) but could not find anything useful.
>   
>   Netgraph is a possibility, but there isn't any documentation on
>   accessing the network from kernel space.
>   
>   What do you all suggest?
>   
>   
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> Hello Ferner,
>   
>   I am working on a module that needs to do the same thing. I'm starting  work on the socket code today. If and when I have something working, I  will be more than happy to share some code snippets with you. 
> 
>   Thanks,
>   Gerry
>   


ng_ksocket of course does all this so you will find code samples
in there.