From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 19 21:42:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E192137B73F for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:42:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2K5dan21832; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:39:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:39:36 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Vishwanath P Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP stack Message-ID: <20010319213936.F29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010320055052.20711.qmail@venus.postmark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010320055052.20711.qmail@venus.postmark.net>; from vishu_bp@postmark.net on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:50:52AM +0000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Vishwanath P [010319 20:48] wrote: > Hi , > > can any one help me with this. > how is the tcp/ip stack running.is it a single process? or is it > running as multiple processes. > pls tell me if i do ps -aef which is the process concerned with the > tcp/ip stack implementation. > > As far as i know inetd daemon has daemons for applications like > telnet, ftp etc... But how abt the actual stack where is it ie which > is the process? The stack is run inside the kernel, there's really no seperate process for it. It either runs in user context or interrupt context (usually interrupt), but it only borrows context from the consumer of the stack. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message