| .. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*- | |
| .. _net: | |
| ###################### | |
| Digital TV Network API | |
| ###################### | |
| The Digital TV net device controls the mapping of data packages that are part | |
| of a transport stream to be mapped into a virtual network interface, | |
| visible through the standard Linux network protocol stack. | |
| Currently, two encapsulations are supported: | |
| - `Multi Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol_Encapsulation>`__ | |
| - `Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_Lightweight_Encapsulation>`__ | |
| In order to create the Linux virtual network interfaces, an application | |
| needs to tell to the Kernel what are the PIDs and the encapsulation | |
| types that are present on the transport stream. This is done through | |
| ``/dev/dvb/adapter?/net?`` device node. The data will be available via | |
| virtual ``dvb?_?`` network interfaces, and will be controlled/routed via | |
| the standard ip tools (like ip, route, netstat, ifconfig, etc). | |
| Data types and and ioctl definitions are defined via ``linux/dvb/net.h`` | |
| header. | |
| .. _net_fcalls: | |
| Digital TV net Function Calls | |
| ############################# | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| :maxdepth: 1 | |
| net-types | |
| net-add-if | |
| net-remove-if | |
| net-get-if |