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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:01:54 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: adding an address family
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Mark Santcroos wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:22:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> I didn't thought on the netgraph code.
> 
> Is this likely going to replace all the implementations of the current
> supported network protocols?
> 
> In other words, is netgraph the right way to go for me, or should I rather
> focus on the more static part and drop the idea of implementing it as a
> kernel module?

I don't know.. I don't know what you need :-)

I was just suggesting that we made a new loadable protocol in netgraph that you 
could use as an example. Of course it IS possible that you could do what you 
want using netgraph but since I don't know what that is, I can't judge.


> 
> Mark
> 
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