Beginner's information on 2.6 implementation of networking

Beginner's information on 2.6 implementation of networking

[Chase Douglas]

I have an idea for linux networking at the level of manipulation of how sk_buffs
are used. However, I do not know where in the linux kernel code to begin looking
for where sk_buffs are manipulated. I was wondering if there were any good
resources on the 2.6 implementation of the tcp/ip protocol. I have found a few
documents on 2.2 and 2.4, but many of the functions listed do not seem to be
present in the 2.6 kernel. Even if I could have a list of function calls from
send to receive using the tcp/ip protocol, it would help a lot.

Thank you

Re: Beginner's information on 2.6 implementation of networking

[Asim Shankar]

> present in the 2.6 kernel. Even if I could have a list of function calls from
> send to receive using the tcp/ip protocol, it would help a lot.

Have you looked at:
http://datatag.web.cern.ch/datatag/papers/tr-datatag-2004-1.pdf

Though this document is based on 2.4.20, it is similar to 2.6 and as
you go about looking at the code, the changes would be easy to
understand.

Hope that helps,

-- Asim