Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:25:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Charudatta Brahme <charooo@trishul.icil.co.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Driver Programming Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221223550.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <376F682B.6A4283AE@trishul.icil.co.in>
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Charudatta Brahme wrote: > I am making some feeble attempts in writing a network driver, a sort of > virtual host interface (I know about ifconfig alias - but this needs to > be done at the driver level). > I can't find enough information on the ifnet structure - mainly how I > can force the > interface to read all packets coming in. Set promiscuous mode on the appropriate interface. It sounds like you really want to use bpf. > Where am I going wrong? Is there any other way of doing this? > ifconfig alias won't solve my problem as this virtual host has to > represent aroun 1024 hosts. Could you honestly host 1024 sites on one Ethernet without running out of network bandwidth first? Or bottlenecking on all the I/O? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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