Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:27:53 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP/IP relation to Mac OS/X? Message-ID: <20011226142753.A54259@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <200112261907.LAA1105100@meer.meer.net>; from gnn@neville-neil.com on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:07:48AM -0800 References: <200112261907.LAA1105100@meer.meer.net>
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:07:48AM -0800, George V. Neville-Neil thus spoke: > Just checking out some developer info on OS/X and I came upon this > interesting quote: > For kernel developers, Darwin provides the Network Kernel > Extension (NKE) facility. This allows developers to create > networking modules and even entire protocol stacks that can be > dynamically loaded and unloaded. NKEs also make it possible to > configure protocol stacks automatically and easily monitor and > modify network traffic. At the data-link and network layers, they > can also receive notifications of asynchronous events from device > drivers. > Can anyone comment on the progeny of the TCP/IP stack in Mac > OS/X? Did they do a rewrite or just tweaks? Granted this may > all be market speak but if it's true it would indicate some > significant changes. I can't say one way or the other but in the past couple of weeks someone from Apple posted some fixes to the FreeBSD specifically in the TCP/IP area so I'm assuming it's the BSD stack. Otherwise the fixes would be going the other way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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