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## How to bypass the TCP/IP stack and access raw ethernet

  Forum: Device Driver Basics
  Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 18:37:19 GMT
  From: Ritvik Pandey <ritvikp@iitk.ernet.in>

         We are developing a system intended to perform fast message passing between CPU's involved in execution of a parallel program. There are sevral standards for message passing and many implementations. But most of this implementations use the TCP/IP stack for communication. This is inefficient for usage in small networks situated in a single ethernet domain. We are trying to bypass the TCP/IP stack. We are working on LINUX based Pentium PC's. Can we have some help.