Re: MAC address instead of IP

[Ben Greear]

Donald Duckie wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am looking for some sample codes which uses MAC
> address instead of TCP-IP for data transmission. Any
> suggestions are highly appreciated.

Check out the 'man 7 socket' man page and read up on
raw packet sockets.  You can format a packet down to
the ethernet header and send it directly to the
interface transmit queue...

And all this safely from user-space.

Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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