Re: TCP/IP stack

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:06:10 +0300


Richard, should there be (is there?) linux-networking-faq, or can this
be put into the linux-kernel faq ?

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:33:46AM -0400, Michael J Clark wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> I have been reading through TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 and the linux
> source.

That book describes BSD implementation.

Linux code has been written completely independently, and using
fundamentally different base structure -- instead of PCBs containing
chains of segments, Linux has SKBs with entire segment contiguous
in it.

Function, and structure names are different, naturally.

> Mike

/Matti Aarnio
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