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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:41:08 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to send data between two network cards directly? 
Message-ID:  <199810071541.IAA00429@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 16:58:06 %2B0200." <199810071458.QAA01398@internal> 

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> I have two machines connected with two network cards directly
> together via 10Base2. I would like to send data from one
> machine two the other without doing IP or any other
> protocol.

You have to have some protocol, or you can't tell what any given item 
of data is.

> What functions in FreeBSD could be used for that without
> hacking around in the kernel or the network drivers?
> 
> Is there something like a low-level-open or some ioctl
> or anything similar?

>From the opposite direction - why do you want to do this?  There's a 
perfectly functional solution already available that doesn't involve 
reinventing the wheel.


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