So I am trying to write a virtual network device driver that takes all packets from the network stack and passes them to the ethernet or wireless drivers. I have this working on the transmit side of things but not on the reception.

So I was wondering if anyone would know how to receive/grab packets from the ethernet and wireless device drivers before there reach the kernel's network stack?

I looked at the bonding driver and it doesn't have to receive packets and I also looked at the bridge device code and that seems to be part of the kernel stack where I am trying to write a loaded driver. I am using the 2.6.30.9 kernel.

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Have you looked at the tap/tun Ethernet "drivers"? I am not sure they are what you want, but can be used to interface between various hardware and the Ethernet stack.