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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:38:23 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Nicolas Cormier <n.cormier@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject:   Re: in-kernel tcp server
Message-ID:  <467787EF.9060009@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <c4630b800706180227x2f1f433dr4ef55e8623062bf1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c4630b800706180227x2f1f433dr4ef55e8623062bf1@mail.gmail.com>

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Nicolas Cormier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to write a little tcp-server kernel module (like tftp).
> I didn't find a lot of documents about the kernel network programming,
> just one thread which talks about netgraph.
> In the freebsd includes I found /usr/include/sys/socketvar.h (so*).
> 
> What's the easy way to create a basic tcp server
> (create/bind/listen/accept/send/recv) : use netgraph's ksocket or so*
> ?
> 
> Thanks in advance !
> PS: the whole job must be done in the kernel.



yes it can (and has been) done..
John Polstra did it many years ago.. using netgraph ksockets.
He had an in-kernel web server.
At least I THINK it was him :-)






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