On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:03:28 +0100 Silviu Craciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:53 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The connection between file and network device is through many > > layers and there is no direct binding. It could be 0 to N interfaces > > and even be data dependent. > > you mean protocol dependent? yes,it goes trough the layer of the vfs but > I thought there may be a way to get to the struct net_device from the > struct file. You have the dev_base which contains all devices and in the > net_device there is the ifindex which is the unique identifier. I guess > there is no way to know the ifindex directly from a socket struct. > > thanks > silviu > You can have things like netfilter and traffic classifiers that look at packet. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
