Subject: channel oriented network protocol
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Johan Rydberg <johan.rydberg@netinsight.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/15/2000 16:34:09
Hi!

I will implementing a network protocol stack in NetBSD 1.4.2,
and want to have some points where I should start.

The network technology is channel (and connection) oriented.
To be able to send any data on the network, a channel has to
be created first.  

When creating a channel alot of information has to be specified,
such as the bandwidth and destination host.  This data must be
supplied to the device driver. 

How should I solve this?  Should the device and the protocol
stack communicate using ioctl's? 

Do anyone know of other implementations of channel/connection
oriented network protocol stacks implemented in BSD ?

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