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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:59:08 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netgraph TCP/IP
Message-ID:  <3DAF087C.7B148341@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021017110456.G15035@sjt-u10.cisco.com>

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Steve Tremblett wrote:
> A while back someone was fishing for a project to take on and someone
> suggested a complete TCP/IP implementation in netgraph.  I found the
> idea interesting and am considering taking a shot at it.  My main goal
> in all this is to learn as much as possible and at this point I'm just
> reading.
> 
> While this is a personal educational project, I figure I should propose
> it here and solicit comments/thoughts/suggestions on such a venture so
> that maybe the results might be usable by someone else.


Start with just a TCP implementation, after exposing a raw IP
interface as a netgraph node.  This will make your life much
easier.  There is a lot of promiscuous knowledge in the code,
both for packets on the way in, and packets on the way out.

-- Terry

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