Hello
I'm trying to study and understand operations of the Linux tcp/ip stack, specifically how 'ping' sends packets down and receives them. Ping creates raw socket in AF_INET family, therefore I placed printk in inet_sendmsg() at net/ipv4/af_inet.c to print out the socket protocol name (RAW, UDP etc.) and the address of protocol specific sendmsg function which correctly appears to be raw_sendmsg() from net/ipv4/raw.c
Now, I'm sending a single packet and observe that I'm getting printk form inet_sendmsg() twice.This puzzles me -- is it normal (has something to do with interrupts etc. ?) or there's something broken in the kernel?
Platform - ARM5te, kernel 2.6.31.8
Looking forward to hearing from you !
Mark