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To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
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Subject: Re: How to send data between two network cards directly? 
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:10:49 -0700
From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
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Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have two machines connected with two network cards directly
>together via 10Base2. I would like to send data from one
>machine two the other without doing IP or any other
>protocol.

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but maybe it's what you mean:

http://www.isi.edu/~touch/pubs/computer-peer98.ps

It's an article to appear in IEEE Network about having network cards
DMA packet bodies between the cards with minimal kernel help.  I
believe that the work was done on FreeBSD.  Contact the authors for
more details.

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Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
(310) 822-1511 x190      PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc


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