[etherlab-users] ethercat filtering

Mike O'Connor mike at oeg.com.au
Tue Feb 14 12:21:26 CET 2017


On 14/02/2017 9:48 PM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> On 14/02/2017 9:41 PM, Sriram V wrote:
>> Hi mike,
>>
>> I understand that. This is a totallyu different question and pertains
>> to ethernet.
>>
>> I am just trying to find out on a normal ethernet network with 2
>> interfaces whether a IP routing takes place.
>> I am using a raw socket and seem to packets even though ifconfig does
>> not show any increase in Rx Packets.
>>
> A raw socket is an IP packet with out any upper level protocol data, but
> it does had ip addresses so depending on your computers configuration ip
> packets can be routed between the two interfaces.
>
> But this mailing list is not the place for such a conversation, you need
> to have a read of ip routing fundamentals.
>
>
> Mike
>
Actually I'm wrong that example program uses raw Ethernet frames not raw
ip packets so there no route-able.


Mike




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