Re: RE: how packet stored in skb?

["bunty " <bunty123_4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Suvidh,
       Can you tell mw waht is the effect then if i remove the statement
 skb->h.raw = skb->nh.raw = skb->data;
in dev.c file in net_receive_skb function?
cause if i do that icmp and udp packet still travels on loopback but tcp will hangs kernel?
help me understanding this.
regards,
parag.



On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 Suvidh Mathur wrote :
>Hi,
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by packet already mapped to skb?
>
>skb->data points to the start of unprocessed data, in netif_rx()
>this would be the start of network layer header.
>Another thing to notice is, h & nh are unions, so I can transparently
>assign skb->nh.raw without bothering to figure out the actual network
>protocol of the packet. The protocol's receive function can then use the
>corresponding field in nh. Same goes for h.raw too, if you look closely,
>you'd see that ip_local_deliver_finish() updates h.raw to point to skb->data
>which would point to the unprocessed packet (read transport header).
>
>HTH
>
>Thanks & regards,
>Suvidh Mathur
>
>-----Original Message-----
> From: bunty [mailto:bunty123_4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:18 PM
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>Subject: how packet stored in skb?
>
>   hello,
>
>
>why is it neccessary to copy skb->data to skb->h.raw and skb->nh.raw in dev.c file?
>I think the whole packet structure along with data and all headers are already mapped to skb structure and after receiving packet i think no function is using raw variables to process packet they only get values from skb structure.
>regards,
>parag.
>
>
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