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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: steve gericke <steveg@comtrol.com>
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Subject: Re: interface to ethernet drivers
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, steve gericke wrote:

> Hi:
>   I am looking for a standard interface in which I can
>   access Ethernet drivers in order to send and receive 
>   packets to a specific device (MAC address).
> 
>   Is there a standard interface , if so what is it, and
>   how do I access it as a ported product.

If you're trying to read/write raw Ethernet packets, check out the bpf
(Berkeley packet filter).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major