Re: [developer] Raw ethernet packets

[Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 02:03:07AM -0700, Joshua M. Clulow via illumos-developer wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2024, 01:43 Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to send a raw ethernet packet from an userland application
> > but all my attempts so far were unsuccessful.  I basically tried two
> > approaches (see below) but maybe both are in wrong direction.  I'd
> > appreciate some help, suggestion or pointer to an working example or
> > application already doing that.
> >
> 
> You probably want to look at the DLPI, and in particular libdlpi:
> 
>     https://illumos.org/man/4P/dlpi
> 
> There's a simple program in the gate that demonstrates sending an ethernet
> frame using libdlpi interfaces:
> 
> 
> https://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/dlutil/dlsend.c?r=20768856

I'm not sure I'll be able/allowed to use libdlpi for this, but
definitely this is valuable suggestion.

Thank you.

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