Tim,
Much appreciate your discovery. Works for me also. Tried emailing you,
but got:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<wilson@mediaone.net>
(reason: 550 Invalid recipient <wilson@mediaone.net>)
(expanded from: <wilson@mediaone.net>)
Thanks much,
-Doug
Tim Wilson wrote:
>
> I a question about snull (from Doug Winterburn) on this mailing list
> back in December. I just figured out how to make it work under 2.2 and
> I thought you might want to know. BTW, snull is a sample program in
> Rubini's device drivers book.
>
> The key thing is to set skb->pkt_type in snull_rx, before calling
> netif_rx:
>
> /* Write metadata, and then pass to the receive level */
> skb->dev = dev;
> skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY;
>
> // YOU MUST SET THIS!
> // This is the thing that makes it work under 2.2
> skb->pkt_type = PACKET_HOST;
>
> There's a couple of other tweaks required to get it to compile but I
> assume you know about these since you did compile it.
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