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Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:58:32 -0400 From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com> To: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com> Cc: Anton <Anton.Uzunov@...o.defence.gov.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Sending ipv6 packets from a kernel module Neil Horman wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:04:33PM +0930, Anton wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Please excuse me if the following question has already been asked on the >> mailing list, I am a little new to this. >> >> I am trying to send IPv6 packets from a kernel module. As far as I >> understand, I would have to use the ip6_output() function, and this >> function is certainly present in the net/ipv6/ip6_output.c file (on my >> 2.6.18 kernel). Unfortunately, the function is not exported from the >> IPv6 module and so my kernel module is unable to use it. Has anyone >> encountered such a problem before, and if not, does anyone know what is >> required for me to push a sk_buff into the IP stack for transmission >> (from a kernel module)? >> Any ideas would be appreciated! >> >> Regards, >> Anton >> > No, you'll probably want to use something like kernel_sendmsg to send what you > want, passing in a socket created with something like sock_create_kern. > > Regards > Neil > You can also use ip6_xmit assuming the module has performed the necessary route lookups. -vlad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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