Namespace file descriptors

Posted Oct 2, 2011 16:20 UTC (Sun) by uriel (guest, #20754)
In reply to: Namespace file descriptors by renzo
Parent article: Namespace file descriptors

Plan 9 always used a file system interface to its network stack, and you could mount multiple ip stacks, and remote network stacks, and 'virtual network stacks' (eg., providing tunneling to a remote non-plan9 system using sshnet).

See:

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip