Re: Accessing Data Link Layer with win32

You might already know this, but there are some very tiny TCP stacks out
there. For example, uIP (for "micro IP") claims that it can fit 1 listening
TCP port, 10 TCP connection slots, 10 ARP table entries, a packet buffer of
400 bytes and a simple HTTP server, all inside of a code size of 6.2 Kbytes
and 958 bytes of RAM.

See http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/index.html . It's designed for 8-bit and
16-bit embedded microcontrollers.



"Todd" <toddbitrode@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1181924125.187345.243350@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Is there a standard way to directly read and write frames to the data
link layer? I'm looking into writing windows software that will talk
with some custom hardware that implements a link layer protocol but
doesn't have the resources to implement a full TCP/IP layer.

What I'm hoping for is some sort of standard win32 api calls that can
access the link layer if possible. Does such a thing exist or does
this type of thing require a driver to be written?



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