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From: <prade@cs.sunysb.edu>
To: Robert Pfister <robertp@ustri.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Trapping all Incoming Network Packets
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:40:36 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0203181330530.5841-100000@compserv3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003501c1ceaa$91678f90$1e00a8c0@nomaam>

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Robert Pfister wrote:

> There are ways to accomplish similar things in user space. Is there some
> reason that you need to do this in the kernel? What is your end-goal with
> this?
>
> Robb
>

To do it in user space, you have to use the raw socket interface. This
by-passes the entire TCP/IP stack. I want to sniff the packets, and make a
decision based on certain characteristics of each packet. So I need to
have a filter between the IP and link-layer. Also, I do not want the
filter to slow down traffic. Hence I believe implementing inside kernel
will be more efficient.

-- pradipta


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-18 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-17 23:57 Trapping all Incoming Network Packets prade
2002-03-18  2:09 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-03-18 18:27 ` Robert Pfister
2002-03-18 18:40   ` prade [this message]
2002-03-18 19:15     ` Robert Pfister
2002-03-18 19:17     ` Chris Friesen
2002-03-18 19:41 Hari Gadi
2002-03-18 21:49 ` prade

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