Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:49:59 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Falco Krepel <krepel@fokus.gmd.de>, "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New Protocol over Ethernet Message-ID: <3A1642B7.C2FD231F@elischer.org> References: <3A142E0C.1B1D18DD@fokus.gmd.de> <3A15DE21.3E33067A@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > Falco Krepel wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I want to implement my own protocol on top of ethernet. This protocol > > should should not influence other protocols running on the system. So I > > must distinguish my own frames from other frames. > > > > Because this is my first time to implement such a protocol on FreeBSD I > > am not sure how I can do this. I have read some documentation about > > interprocess communication within FreeBSD, the TCP/IP illustrated book, > > ... Furthermore I study the BSD source code around network > > communication. But until now it is not clarify how I can do this in the > > best way. > > > > [...] > > > > 2. I attach direct to the ethernet interface. This means I must add a > > new protocol class to get only my own frames. Is that right? > > Yes, and this would be the "best" way to do this. Preferrably, you > would add the middle layer interfaces, using the network interface > drivers on the bottom and the socket layer on the top; your protocol > would be analagous to IPv4 and IPv6. this is not in my opinion the "best" way of doing this. If you do this you will need to keep patching every release of BSD as it comes out. If you use netgraph to get the packets you can make your protocol a module that can be compiled and loaded on any system without editing any code. > > /usr/src/sys/net* are examples of existing protocols. inet and inet6 are > the most developed, of course. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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