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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>
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Subject: Re: can I do this with a KLD?
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:00:00AM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> in netinet/in_proto.c there is struct ipprotosw inetsw[], which
> contains the entry points for the various Internet protocols. If one
> wants to add a new protocol he has to add the entry points in that
> array.
>=20
> Would it be feasible to add a new protocol as a KLD instead? If yes,
> how?  If not, what would be required to transform inetsw[] in a way
> that would allow KLD?

Take a look at sys/net/if_gif.c.  It adds a new IP protocol and is
loadable.

-- Brooks

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