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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:22:07 -0700
From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To: Jorge P Vasquez <jorge@acron.ind.br>
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Subject: Re: working with mbufs
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On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:58:46AM -0300, Jorge P Vasquez scribbled:
> Hi all.
> 
> I need some clues about where to find information on working with mbufs. To
> be more specific, I need to strip the ethernet header of a packet, do some
> processing (for instance, IP=mtod (m, struct ip*) should work correctly) with
> it and then restore the _original_ ether header. Could someone please give
> me a pointer to the information I need to get started (besides mbuf.h and
> uipc_mbuf.c, which were of some help, but weren't enough) or to some sample
> code?

There is a good discussion of mbufs in chapter 2 of "TCP/IP Illustrated,
Volume 2: The Implementation", W. Richard Stevens (ISBN 0-201-63354-X).

-brian

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