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Van Jacobson's network channels

Van Jacobson's network channels

Posted Feb 2, 2006 9:57 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Van Jacobson's network channels by xoddam
Parent article: Van Jacobson's network channels

Wouldn't it lead to code duplication? For example, a box doing NAT would need a (limited?) TCP/IP implementation in kernel space, while the host running e.g. an FTP client would need the full TCP/IP implementation in user space.

Bye,NAR


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Van Jacobson's network channels

Posted Feb 2, 2006 23:56 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> Wouldn't it lead to code duplication?

Yes. So does inlining :-)

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