From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:06:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:06:45 -0400 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([194.252.70.162]:17676 "EHLO zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:06:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:06:10 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: Michael J Clark Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack Message-ID: <20010628230610.K8897@mea-ext.zmailer.org> In-Reply-To: <200106281433.f5SEXk800876@pobox.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200106281433.f5SEXk800876@pobox.upenn.edu>; from clarkmic@pobox.upenn.edu on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:33:46AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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