[Winpcap-users] TCP/IP stack - reinventing the wheel

[Ramiro Polla]

Hello Mark,

Try uIP. It's very nice, and it has a windows port.

www.sics.se/~adam/uip/

Bye,
Ramiro Polla

>From: "Mark Buchanan" <Mark.Buchanan at giffels.com>
>Reply-To: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
>To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
>Subject: [Winpcap-users] TCP/IP stack - reinventing the wheel
>Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:31:22 -0400
>
>My question is similar to one that has been asked but with a significant
>difference.
>
>Basically what I would like to do is have one adapter act as multiple
>computers (with separate IP address) on a network. I don't see a simple
>way to do this without coding the entire TCP/IP stack to handle all
>packets related to the protocol. The IP addresses would be predefined in
>a text file that the application would read at start up. MAC addresses
>would also be predefined in the same file. The application would then
>act as a server accepting TCP/IP connections from one or more clients on
>each IP address defined. This would all be done in Windows on .NET
>platform. Is there code out there that can be copied and adapted by an
>average programmer like myself - or am I crazy to consider doing such a
>project?
>
>The alternative is to put multiple adapters in a single PC - this could
>create quite the wiring mess if the node count gets high.
>
>A bit of background:
>
>I have successfully used WinPCAP encapsulated in a simple DLL file
>(functions called by .NET application) to simulate multiple Ethernet
>nodes in a non-TCP/IP environment. One application running on one PC
>simulating 63 controllers that accepts up to 4 connections / controller.
>To do this the code handles the entire OSI-COTP stack accepting and
>sending all packets on the wire. This sounds like a lot of effort but
>was make easier because the stack in this case was fairly simple.
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>Mark Buchanan
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>Giffels Associates Limited
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