RE: Injecting packets into the kernel

[Andreas Steinmetz]

You can use a raw socket:

socket(AF_INET,SOCK_RAW,IPPROTO_RAW);

On 22-Dec-2001 Andreas Kinzler wrote:
> I am trying to fix a problem in diald (demand dialing tool). The problem is
> that
> somewhen you need to resubmit IP packets to the kernel that were buffered
> while the
> link (PPP in most cases) was down. However, a bit of debugging showed that
> the method
> used in diald does not work. You cannot submit to ppp0 directly because of
> masq/forwaring
> issues. Can somebody give me some hints how to submit packets from a user
> mode programm.
> 
> Andreas
> 
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Andreas Steinmetz
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