From owner-freebsd-net Wed Dec 26 11:28: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (spdsl-033.wanlogistics.net [63.209.115.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB6737B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBQJRrT54281; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:27:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bv) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:27:53 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion To: "George V. Neville-Neil" Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP/IP relation to Mac OS/X? Message-ID: <20011226142753.A54259@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <200112261907.LAA1105100@meer.meer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112261907.LAA1105100@meer.meer.net>; from gnn@neville-neil.com on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:07:48AM -0800 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:07:48AM -0800, George V. Neville-Neil thus spoke: > Just checking out some developer info on OS/X and I came upon this > interesting quote: > For kernel developers, Darwin provides the Network Kernel > Extension (NKE) facility. This allows developers to create > networking modules and even entire protocol stacks that can be > dynamically loaded and unloaded. NKEs also make it possible to > configure protocol stacks automatically and easily monitor and > modify network traffic. At the data-link and network layers, they > can also receive notifications of asynchronous events from device > drivers. > Can anyone comment on the progeny of the TCP/IP stack in Mac > OS/X? Did they do a rewrite or just tweaks? Granted this may > all be market speak but if it's true it would indicate some > significant changes. I can't say one way or the other but in the past couple of weeks someone from Apple posted some fixes to the FreeBSD specifically in the TCP/IP area so I'm assuming it's the BSD stack. Otherwise the fixes would be going the other way. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message