networking

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Jul 18 17:07:41 PDT 2003


:
:Do you envision the structure of networking changing any,
:other than what you mentioned previously with MP scaling?
:
:			-Kip

    A good deal of the low level network infrastructure (packet I/O)
    will change just from other work that is being done.  Apart from the
    planned changes to partition the TCP and UDP stacks, I'm sure the mbuf
    subsystem will also wind up getting rewritten.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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