The opensolaris version that I am using is pre-crossbow. In general, can I say that a received packet’s trip can be classified into three stages: • Packet is transferred from network interface card (NIC) to ring buffer. The NIC and device driver manage and controls this process. • Packet is transferred from ring buffer to a socket receive buffer, driven by a software interrupt request (softirq). The kernel protocol stack handles this stage. • Packet data is copied from the socket receive buffer to the application.
If there are sources which described this for opensolaris, can you please point them out. Thanks. Vish -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
