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Re: ethernet driver
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: ram kumar <ram_ecos at yahoo dot co dot in>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:41:53 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ethernet driver
- References: <20060120152319.38573.qmail@web8408.mail.in.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:23 +0000, ram kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In io/eth/doc/driver_doc
>
> Under the topic “Calling graph for Transmit and
> Receive” it is written that
>
> “Foreground task calls into network stack to send a
> packet”.
>
> If a user wants to do the same operation, through its
> application code. Then what could be the way?
>
> Means in place of stack or “Foreground task”, I want
> to transmit data (raw data without any format of
> tcp/ip) myself.
>
> I am asking this b’coz , all the test cases in “net”
> package are based on “socket”, and I only want to use
> Ethernet port, without going for “tcp/ip or BSD”
> stack.
Why? What are you trying to accomplish?
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