On 29/08/2007, Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a precursor to IP Datapath Refactoring (and more about that once I > cleanup the draft design document) we need to fold icmp.c and rts.c into > the common IP STREAMS module, so that we can uniformly call into IP. > That is, be able to call ip_output() directly instead of using putnext(). > > While folding those in I realized that the STREAMS module code in tcp > and udp can be replaced by something much simpler. > > The result is visible in the form of a short design document and a > webrev at: > http://cr.grommit.com/~nordmark/ipd0/ip-plumbing-design.pdf > > http://cr.grommit.com/~nordmark/ipd0/ipd0/webrev/ > > Comments? >
Once Nemo becomes the one true driver interface then you should also be able to dispense with DLPI between IP and Nemo completely and plumb by making calls directly from IP into DLS. This was one of my original intentions for the future of DLS. Paul -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
