Handling packets from kernel click to user process

[Audun Tornquist]

If you just want to hand packets from the kernel to user-space you might
want to look into the netfilter extensions (that is, if you're running linux
2.4+)

/audun

> hmm, I think that's the whole problem, the linux kernel can't talk via
> regular sockets or unix sockets with a user process (or am I wrong ?).
> There exists something as netlink sockets which do a similar thing.
> (traffic control and iproute use this to communicate with the linux
> kernel as far as I know).
>
> Maybe that's indeed a solution, I'll look into it and we could use this
> controlsocket/chattersocket communication protocol maybe.
>
> regards,
> Brecht
>
> "Douglas S. J. De Couto" wrote:
> >
> > perhaps the ControlSocket/ChatterSocket idea can be adapted or
> > generalized for the kernel module?
> >
> > i.e. let kernel click talk with user processes over a regular socket
> > pair?  or over a unix socket?
> >
> > d
> >
> > --
> > Douglas S. J. De Couto    decouto at lcs.mit.edu