Hi group!
Can anybody give me a reference to the BSD TCP/IP stack implementation.
Everything will be helpfull: Internet links, group names, book names ...
Thanks a lot in advance!

P.S. I am looking for its implementation in the kernel, not its usage.
P.P.S. And I am not looking for the linux TCP/IP implementation.

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Ivan Gotovchits wrote:
> Hi group!
> Can anybody give me a reference to the BSD TCP/IP stack implementation.
> Everything will be helpfull: Internet links, group names, book names ...
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>

TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation by W. Richard Stevens

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Ian Collins.

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Ivan Gotovchits <ivan.gotovchits@auriga.ru> writes:
> Can anybody give me a reference to the BSD TCP/IP stack implementation.
> Everything will be helpfull: Internet links, group names, book names ...
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> P.S. I am looking for its implementation in the kernel, not its usage.

In what way the sources of the various BSD kernels aren't what you're
asking?


Or do you mean you haven't used google to find a download site for
these sources?

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Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Ivan Gotovchits <ivan.gotovchits@auriga.ru> writes: 
>
> In what way the sources of the various BSD kernels aren't what you're
> asking?
>
>
> Or do you mean you haven't used google to find a download site for
> these sources?
>
No, of course I have this sources )) And all I know about it is from the
sources, but I would like to broaden my knowledges from some book. There're
lots of books, about linux implementation, but I've failed to find anything
about classical BSD stack.
Shame to me, that I do not look into the Stevens second volume, thanks to
you, Ian Collins. I'll go to the bookstore today ))

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On 2007-08-20, Ivan Gotovchits <ivan.gotovchits@auriga.ru> wrote:
>
> Hi group!
> Can anybody give me a reference to the BSD TCP/IP stack implementation.
> Everything will be helpfull: Internet links, group names, book names ...
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> P.S. I am looking for its implementation in the kernel, not its usage.
> P.P.S. And I am not looking for the linux TCP/IP implementation.

I have a copy of the book: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
Operating System", by McKusick et al. which contains a lot of details on
the networking implementation of 4.4BSD. I think it would make a good
companion to the source code.

Also I believe there is a newer "design and implementation of FreeBSD"
book which might be more up to date, but I don't have it and can't say
what it contains exactly.

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John Tsiombikas <nuclear@siggraph.org> writes:
> On 2007-08-20, Ivan Gotovchits <ivan.gotovchits@auriga.ru> wrote: 
>
> I have a copy of the book: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
> Operating System", by McKusick et al. which contains a lot of details on
> the networking implementation of 4.4BSD. I think it would make a good
> companion to the source code.
>
> Also I believe there is a newer "design and implementation of FreeBSD"
> book which might be more up to date, but I don't have it and can't say
> what it contains exactly.

I have it. Judging from the contents, it is basically 'The design and
...' updated for FreeBSD. It doesn't go into much detail wrt
networking/ IPC, though. Nevertheless, it is something I'd call
'recommmended reading' for people interested in UNIX(*)-kernels.

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