The interested reader can check the previous articles (links: sample skeleton driver and loading the skeleton driver) before going through this article. In the sample skeleton driver, a set of callbacks were defined and later registered with the Linux network stack. The code snippet is shown below In the above code snippets, the network device […]

The skeleton network device driver that is discussed in the current article can be found in this previous article here . Kindly refer the code which can be used to compile a network skeleton drive module, loaded and can be used to perform a few basic network operations to understand Linux networking. Compile the code […]

The below sample network driver does pretty much nothing. Hence, the term skeleton network driver. It does allow the understanding of basic concepts regarding how a network device driver works in the Linux kernel. The network devices are connected to the network stack and communicate with the outside world using network packets. The network device […]