> anyone seen this? > > http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/vj/ Yes quite interesting, and here is a nice writeup: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/2006/01/27 > i don't know if his methods have any application to Plan 9, since the > Plan 9 IP stack doesn't seem to have the lineage of the linux and bsd > stacks. i am not intimate with the IP stack code, but it might bear a > lookover. >From the very little I know about our IP stack(which comes from reading Nemo's excellent commentary on the 3rd edition kernel source), we might be not too far from a design similar to what is described there, but I might be completely wrong.
And even if it's not, /net makes it easy to put the IP stack in user space without having to change a single line of application code. Ah, the more I deal with Plan 9, the more I love it :) Maybe we should try to convince those lunix people to replace sockets with something like /net? ;) uriel > > it at least has me curious enough to go digging around through the code. :-) >
