RE: forcing a packet to go through hw net device

["Sumit" <sumit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check out netfilter ROUTE target.
All the best,
-- Sumit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of 'Jeff' R. Steinhagen
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a (maybe trivial) question about the kernel's networking code:
>
> A packet with an "outside" destination goes through all layers
> including the
> hardware interface (user->socket->protocol->IP->HW). However if
> the packet is
> addressed to a local IP the transport through and checks by the hardware
> layer are avoided. This is perfectly OK for "normal" network usage.
>
> I am profiling some network hardware and related code. Is it
> possible to force
> an internally generated packet to be send through all/the hardware layers?
>