Re: Implementation of Data Link Layer protocols

["Amit Goel" <nonu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Data Link Layer protocols.
> AFAICT, for communication between two machines, sockets cannot be used in
> this case as use of TCP or UDP sockets would mean the use of a Transport
or
> Network Layer service respectively which is not allowed as only services

Of course using sockets means u r using transport layer services and
programming application layer.
if u implement sockets that means u r using ip layer and programming
transport layer.

If u want to write at data link layer .. consider implementing ppp.c or
slip.c

amit