egress path understanding

2007-01-04 Thread Javi Roman
Hi all, (sorry for newbie question) I'm trying to learn the networking code of an ancient 2.4.18 vanilla kernel. I understand that the egress path of network packet (socket buffer) as general behaviour, goes through the method hard_start_xmit() within of the driver layer. This method is the

egress path understanding

2007-01-04 Thread javiroman
Hi all, (sorry for newbie question) I'm trying to learn the networking code of an ancient 2.4.18 vanilla kernel. I understand that the egress path of network packet (socket buffer) as general behaviour, goes through the method hard_start_xmit() within of the driver layer. This method is the