Re: [lwip-users] Getting started with an ethernet driver for linux

[Simon Goldschmidt]

Sylvain Rochet wrote:
> > Thanks, where you say it "uses a pseudo network interface that somehow 
> > passes raw ethernet packets", what do you mean by "somehow"; is this 
> > functionality provided by lwip, or do I need to do the lwip to raw 
> > ethernet packet interface?
> 
> The unix port uses the TUN/TAP virtual Ethernet interfaces facility of 
> the Linux(and others) kernel.

*Or* you could rewrite the winpcap driver from the win32 port and use it with 
pcap under linux. That's why I said "somehow", because it doesn't really matter 
what method you use to get it into the linux network stack.

Simon