Re: is eth header is not transmitted

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:59:48PM +0530, Sourav Sen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 	In the function ip_build_xmit(), immediately after
> sk_alloc_send_skb(), skb_reserve(skb, hh_len) is called. Now
> skb_reserve(skb,len) only increment the data pointer and tail pointer by 
> len amt.
> 
> 	Now in a particular hard_start_xmit() say for rtl8139, the data
> transfer is taking place from skb->data :
> 	outl(virt_to_bus(skb->data), ioaddr + TxAddr0 + entry*4)
> 
> So, I cannot understand, if transfer starts from data and not head, is
> ethrnet header not transmitted? what I am missing? 

An skb_put() 

-Andi