Low level network access

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From: Allan Bo Jørgensen (mmmca_at_mail.dk)
Date: 07/29/04

  • Next message: Dean Ramsier: "Re: Low level network access" 
    Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 17:42:34 +0200

    I'm trying to port an embedded system to CE.NET, and one of the things I
    need to do is access the network at a very low level - basically being
    able to just put an ethernet frame into the controller, and likewise
    just read an ethernet frame from the controller (an interrupt upon
    receival would be VERY nice too). It used to run under Embedded XP and
    plain old W2K, and we used a tailor-made third-party tool to access the
    network adaptor. We can't seem to find a similar product for WinCE,
    however, and the tool provider does not support CE.

    I've been looking at NDIS, and it seems to supply the handles for
    solving this. It also looks very complicated and seems to be mainly for
    writing drivers. While it's not entirely clear to me to what extent NDIS
    is directly accessible from userland code, attempts at running what
    little sample code I've come across have failed miserably.

    My question is: Are there libraries around that solve this? If not,
    pointers to sample code or relevant information would be very much
    appreciated. I refuse to believe that I'm the only one who has faced
    this problem :-)

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