Ethernet (Raw)

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

Erwin Rol writes:
 > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:12, Joel Sherrill wrote:
 > 
 > > Look for tap in the networking guide and see if that helps.  I don't 
 > > know if it is far enough into the stack to help.
 > 
 > The TAP interface is only the receiving part ( right ? ). I hacked up
 > something like that for RTEMS 4.0 too, the problem was sending raw (or
 > almost raw , IPX) frames.
 > 

Its right above the driver itself- its a raw ethernet frame.
Depending on the if_tap function's return value, the packet is either
passed to the tcp/ip stack or discarded.

Gregm