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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:22:12 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
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Subject: Re: adding an address family
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Mark Santcroos wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to dynamicly add an address family from a
> kernel module.
> 
> I ask this because I am working on IrDA support for FreeBSD. I want to
> create AF_IRDA and all the corresponding structures and functions.
> 
> So would it be possible to add another network stack at runtime or is the
> code not ready for that?


we do this in ng_socket.c where we add our own protocol.

we even export the number of the protocol and domain to userland with sysctls
so one COULD run a program which doesn't know in advance what the 
protocol and domain numbers are..


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
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