userspace implementation of tcp/ip

userspace implementation of tcp/ip

[Marti, Felix]

Hi there,

I remember that somebody ported the linux tcp/ip stack to userspace a long
time ago. Does anybody have a link to that project?

thanx,
felix

Re: userspace implementation of tcp/ip

[Pekka Pietikäinen]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:47:20AM -0700, Marti, Felix wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I remember that somebody ported the linux tcp/ip stack to userspace a long
> time ago. Does anybody have a link to that project?
Hi

I'm not sure if it's the thing you're looking for, but 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/arsenic/
did that. I never got their code running, though,
their modified acenic firmware didn't run at all, and according
to the docs it required a rev5 board (rev4 and 6 are what people usually
have). Still, it might be possible to use their userland tcp/ip
library in other projects with some hackery.

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen

Re: userspace implementation of tcp/ip

[Jeff Dike]

fmarti@desanasystems.com said:
> I remember that somebody ported the linux tcp/ip stack to userspace a
> long time ago. Does anybody have a link to that project? 

I don't know anything about that project, but my project 
(http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net) has a userspace tcp/ip stack
as a side-effect of porting the entire kernel to userspace.

				Jeff

Re: userspace implementation of tcp/ip

[jlnance]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:47:20AM -0700, Marti, Felix wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I remember that somebody ported the linux tcp/ip stack to userspace a long
> time ago. Does anybody have a link to that project?

There is a package called KA9Q which I believe does what you are talking about.
I have not heard anything about it for years, but if you do a google search
you might find something.

Thanks,

Jim

Re: userspace implementation of tcp/ip

[Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:47:20AM -0700, Marti, Felix wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I remember that somebody ported the linux tcp/ip stack to userspace a long
> > time ago. Does anybody have a link to that project?
> 
> There is a package called KA9Q which I believe does what you are talking about.
> I have not heard anything about it for years, but if you do a google search
> you might find something.

AFAIR ka9q is older than Linux...
We used to use it in 1990.

Andrzej