Accessing network driver

Somnath Roy (sroy@wipinfo.soft.net)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:41:12 +0530 (IST)


Hi,

I've the following questions to be clarified.

How can an user-level program access a network driver directly (without going
through socket or any other intermediate stack) ?

Also, can a network driver create (if possible, how can it be created) an
entry in /dev which an user-level program can open and send ioctl to it ?

Any response is appreciated.

Thanx in advance,
- Somnath.

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