Info sought on raw ethernet access

Eric Mowat @ Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA mowat at pyrshadow
Wed Jan 10 03:39:41 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jan7.212732.12668 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> micky at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Micky Liu) writes:
 >We are running AIX/PS2 1.1 on a bunch of model 80's with UB ethernet cards.
 >Is there any documentation on how to access the raw ethernet or even a manual
 >page for device net0?  We are experimenting with some new protocols and need 
 >to read/write directly from/to the ethernet card.  Any information would be
 >greatly appreciated.
  

As I remember, the AIX driver does NOT support reads/writes to the raw
device.  Everything is set to go thru the IP layer.  Nobody said though
you can't write your own driver, provided you can get documentation from
U.B.


	Eric Mowat
	mowat at pyrshadow.pyramid.com



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