Hyperstone (RISC/DSP) port .. TCP/IP?

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 27 03:08:37 UTC 2001


Tom Poliquin <poliquin at softcomp.com> wrote:

> > There would still be a load of integration work to do, not least ripping the
> > kernel dependencies out of that code, but at least you wouldn't have to
> > worry as much about fixing the stack in the face of bug reports --- like the
> > recent CERT advisory describing DoS attacks on a couple of the TCP states.
> 
> I did consider the BSD stack (it's the subject of the entire TCP/IP Vol
> II) but
> you came up with the same objection that I did .. extracting the kernal
> 'stuff'
> looked daunting .. I also reviewed the Linux stack code commentary book
> in 
> which that extraction looked even worse .. Your comment will send me
> back
> to review it one more time ..
> 
>  


Last I checked, "slirp" claimed to be using the BSD stack to handle its
TCP/IP.  And "slirp" doesn't just *use* TCP/IP, and does strange things
to it as it passes by.  So you might glance through slirp and see how
they managed the extraction.


-Lex





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