netdev - is PACKET_TX_RING expected to work on loopback?

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Message-ID: <20111006183732.GA24014@qemfd.net>
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:37:32 -0400
From:	nick black <dankamongmen@...il.com>
To:	Vitali Lovitch <vlovich@...lcomm.com>,
	Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@...-log.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-net@...r.kernel.org
Subject: is PACKET_TX_RING expected to work on loopback?

Hey there. I'm developing an application which makes use of PACKET_TX_RING
(http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php/Omphalos), one mmap'd RX and TX
socket per interface. When I transmit on wireless/ethernet devices, the
packets flow out fine, and I get responses.

When I transmit on loopback, I can see the packets using tcpdump -i lo, 
send() returns 0, and the frame is set back to TP_STATUS_AVAILABLE.
Checksums are properly set and the packets appear well-formed in Wireshark.
I can't seem to read the packets, however; neither the intended DNS server
(verified via dnsmasq -d and strace) nor my own socat udp-listen process
seem to get the packets.

Is PACKET_TX_RING expected to work on loopback?

Thanks!

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                                         nick black <nblack@...dia.com>
"A main cause of the Roman Empire's fall was that–lacking zero–they had
       no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."
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