--- Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > Have you looked at SCTP? > > Yes. > > > > But I am more interested in 'how-to' provide socket interface > > to a new procotol [read: of new domain/type than mentioned in > > socket(2)] > > Also this protocol will be a kernel-module. > > I was referring to its kernel implementation in Linux and > its adaption of the socket interface for its own needs.. Ok I get it. > Although its still an AF_INET protocol, looking at it > perhaps along with any of the other non-AF_INET protocols > in the net dir for the minor diffs should probably be > enough for your needs? Yes you are right. Looked briefly at the SCTP code and it seems to do pretty much what i wanted to do. Will study SCTP and related code in more detail to bug you all further! Thanks a lot for the info :) Abhi. > > thanks, > Nivedita __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html