On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Asias He <asias.hejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 04:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Asias He <asias.hejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> uip stands for user mode {TCP,UDP}/IP. Currently, uip supports ARP, ICMP,
>>> IPV4, UDP, TCP. So any network protocols above UDP/TCP should work as well,
>>> e.g., HTTP, FTP, SSH, DNS.
>>
>> There is an existing uIP which might cause confusion, not sure if
>> you've seen it. First I thought you were using that :).
>
> I heard about uIP, but this patchset have nothing to do with uIP ;-)
>
> At first I was naming the user mode network as "UNET" which is User mode
> NETwork, however, I though uip looks better because it is shorter.
>
> Anyway, if uip do cause confusion. I'd like to change this naming.
It's up to you but now is the right time to do it. Consider if
another program wants to reuse this code or if you ever want to make
it a library, it wouldn't help to have a confusing name.
Stefan
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