Re: TCP/IP from the kernel???

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:08:10PM +0100, Raul Murillo wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a kernel module that writes data into shared memory. A user-space
> process reads this data and then transmits it to the network. Would it be
> possible for the module itself to handle the network communication tasks
> from within the kernel? At the end of the day network protocols (TCP/IP in
> my case) are handled by the kernel, aren't they?

  Do note that NFS is already doing this.
  Perhaps you can find examples of the code in there ?

> many thnks

/Matti Aarnio  -- who thinks that finding the model is more educative,
                  than getting ready to use code in email ...
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