From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Blizek Subject: [RFC] Connection Oriented Routing Protocol Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 11:20:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20071209102046.GA1228@grml.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from michaelblizek.homelinux.net ([193.238.157.55]:56245 "EHLO michaelblizek.homelinux.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751976AbXLIKY7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 05:24:59 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=127.0.0.1) by michaelblizek.homelinux.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J1JLH-0000kX-By for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:24:59 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi! I'm programming a new layer 3+4 protocol. It does not have a routing table for every destination. Instead the end node established a connection through every router to the destination. This allows some pretty interesting optimisations. See http://michaelblizek.homelinux.net/projects/cor/index.html for more details. You can download it with this link: http://michaelblizek.homelinux.net/projects/cor/downloads/cor_2007_12_09.diff This is a pretty early version. It does compile, but it will not run. I can post is on this list, if you want to. It applies to 2.6.22.2 (sorry), but the only files which are touched outside the new net/cor directory are net/Kconfig and net/Makefile -Michi