Hardware-addressfiltering.pptVIP

Hardware-address filtering How can we send packets to just one node on our ‘anchor’ cluster? Privacy, please! Our ‘xmit1000.c’ driver transmits all of its packets to every node on our LAN, and our ‘recv1000.c’ driver receives all of the packets transmitted by any of the nodes! Is this what we really want to happen? Receive address filtering Nowadays any network interface controller has a “filtering” capability which allows any packet NOT to be received by nodes that the packet’s sender didn’t intend it to go to Our new ‘nic.c’ module This device-driver combines the ‘write()’ and ‘read()’ met