Re: TCP as a module

[Eric <eric@cisu.net>]

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On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:25 am, Shan Sinha wrote:
> Hi everyone-
>
> My web searches on this seem to turn up very little.
>
> Many people have suggested that TCP as a loadable module would be nice.
> I am actually in a position where I think it might be necessary.
>
> I am working on a research project on an ad-hoc 802.11 network spanning
> through a local neighborhood.  There are multiple people developing on
> the network with dozens of nodes all running 2.4.  Various kernels
> across the network are updated at various times, but upgrades do happen
> frequently.  Occassionally, kernels are uniformally updated across the
> entire network.
>
> My work specifically requires some TCP hacking.  As a result, I would
> like to insulate my work from other kernel upgrades, so as not to have
> to redo work.  Creating an isolated sandbox, while possible, is not
> optimal, b/c the kernel upgrades are usually necessary and worth
> incorporating.
>
> As a result, I would like to implement a new transport layer module
> based on the TCP code, but with its own address family.  I realize I
> might have to re-compile a few tools, but I use few enough of those,
> that it should be no problem.
>
> Looking at the code, I assume that a starting step would be to figure
> out how to implement TCP as a module.
>
> + Has anyone actually done this or know of someone who has?  Any
> advice/links would be useful.
> + Or does anyone know for certain that doing this is just not possible?
> If so, why not?
>
> I'm willing to live with idiosyncracies in how such a TCP module would
> behave for making my development life easier, I think this is necessary!
> The idea would be that once some of my work actually demonstrates
> positive results, to re-implement back into the core kernel code.
>
> If you have a better solution, I would love to hear it!
>
> Cheers-
> Shan
>
> Shan Sinha
> Networks and Mobile Systems
> Laboratory for Computer Science and AI
> MIT
>
> For information on the research project, visit
> http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/roofnet
>
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