[ale] DEVICE DRIVER HACKING

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Thu May 22 09:53:25 EDT 2003


Amit,

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 04:07, AMIT AGRAWAL wrote:
> I am wishing to know if anyone has worked on redirecting Disk I/O to the NIC
> using the VFS.
> 
> Also can somebody guide me(or give a few hints/references) on how to program
> a NIC device driver to record number/size of packets transferred over the
> NIC.

	This sounds suspicially close to the "network block device" driver. 
It's in 2.4 and 2.5 AFAIK.  See linux/Documentation/nbd.txt for more
information.  It may or may not be what you want.

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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