[Linux-disciples] Recognizing a new NIC

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:03:34AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I guess the problem is figuring out the level of abstraction. If you
> were to send a byte to your network card, where would it go?  When you
> send a raw byte to the parallel port (/dev/lp0) it just passes that data
> along to the printer. Likewise for serial. But a network packet has to
> "go" somewhere. It just doesn't make any sense to send raw data to the
> device. That's why we have the system that allows you to send raw data
> to an IP address and port instead.

Sure. But that seems easy enough to solve: if I send
malformed data (no destination in the packet), it gets
dropped silently.

Can anyone chime in who isn't just speculating? Adam and I
are kind of fumbling here, I think.

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