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you are right. mbufs are used for buffer management in 
the BSD stack. sk_buff as the linux equivalent . 
basically they are chains with control information and 
data. but i think linux assuming more memory allocated 
a large sk_buff and hence data and headers are 
contiguous. I remember Alan Cox giving some explanation 
for why it was this way. For more info you can search 
in google.For info on mbuf refer rich stevens TCP/IP 
vol 2
Quoting Aleksander Rozman <aleksander.rozman@hermes.si>:

> 
> Hi !
>
> I have started proting some network protocols (ax.25 
for ham) from linux,
> and I have come acrros structure called sk_buff. I 
was just wondering if
> someone tried to implement this on FreeBSD? It's 
seems that FreeBSD has
> mbuf
> structure which does the same thing as sk_buff on 
linux, but way things are
> done is quite different (as is the structure). So if 
someone can help, I
> would be very thankful...
>
> Andy
>
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