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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: How to send data between two network cards directly?
To: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (Andre Albsmeier)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 21:08:56 +0100 (MET)
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> > then for your purposes, UDP or raw ethernet packets are absolutely
> > equivalent.
> 
> I think I will stick with the raw packets first and see how it is 
> working. I still don't know exactly what I have to expect

it's much more work than you need. You can use many readily available
applications over udp (or icmp for what matters, e.g. you can just
play with "ping" and run a tcpdump on the other side).

	cheers
	luigi

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