TCP as a module
Hi everyone-
My web searches on this seem to turn up very little.
Many people have suggested that TCP as a loadable module would be nice. I am actually in a position where I think it might be necessary.
I am working on a research project on an ad-hoc 802.11 network spanning through a local neighborhood. There are multiple people developing on the network with dozens of nodes all running 2.4. Various kernels across the network are updated at various times, but upgrades do happen frequently. Occassionally, kernels are uniformally updated across the entire network.
My work specifically requires some TCP hacking. As a result, I would like to insulate my work from other kernel upgrades, so as not to have to redo work. Creating an isolated sandbox, while possible, is not optimal, b/c the kernel upgrades are usually necessary and worth incorporating.
As a result, I would like to implement a new transport layer module based on the TCP code, but with its own address family. I realize I might have to re-compile a few tools, but I use few enough of those, that it should be no problem.
Looking at the code, I assume that a starting step would be to figure out how to implement TCP as a module.
+ Has anyone actually done this or know of someone who has? Any advice/links would be useful.
+ Or does anyone know for certain that doing this is just not possible? If so, why not?
I'm willing to live with idiosyncracies in how such a TCP module would behave for making my development life easier, I think this is necessary! The idea would be that once some of my work actually demonstrates positive results, to re-implement back into the core kernel code.
If you have a better solution, I would love to hear it!
Cheers-
Shan
Shan Sinha
Networks and Mobile Systems
Laboratory for Computer Science and AI
MIT
For information on the research project, visit
http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/roofnet
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Have you tried CC'ing linux-kernel mailing list?
I could be wrong but linux-newbie seems a bit out of place for a post dealing with kernel code development.
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Just a suggestion, I hope you find the answers you're looking for there.
Quoted 56 lines · Shan Sinha
Hi everyone-
My web searches on this seem to turn up very little.
Many people have suggested that TCP as a loadable module would be nice. I am actually in a position where I think it might be necessary.
I am working on a research project on an ad-hoc 802.11 network spanning through a local neighborhood. There are multiple people developing on the network with dozens of nodes all running 2.4. Various kernels across the network are updated at various times, but upgrades do happen frequently. Occassionally, kernels are uniformally updated across the entire network.
My work specifically requires some TCP hacking. As a result, I would like to insulate my work from other kernel upgrades, so as not to have to redo work. Creating an isolated sandbox, while possible, is not optimal, b/c the kernel upgrades are usually necessary and worth incorporating.
As a result, I would like to implement a new transport layer module based on the TCP code, but with its own address family. I realize I might have to re-compile a few tools, but I use few enough of those, that it should be no problem.
Looking at the code, I assume that a starting step would be to figure out how to implement TCP as a module.
+ Has anyone actually done this or know of someone who has? Any advice/links would be useful.
+ Or does anyone know for certain that doing this is just not possible? If so, why not?I'm willing to live with idiosyncracies in how such a TCP module would behave for making my development life easier, I think this is necessary! The idea would be that once some of my work actually demonstrates positive results, to re-implement back into the core kernel code.
If you have a better solution, I would love to hear it!
Cheers-
ShanShan Sinha
Networks and Mobile Systems
Laboratory for Computer Science and AI
MITFor information on the research project, visit
http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/roofnet-
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Hello Eric , If a question has to do with Networking please forward the person to netdev or linux-net maillists . DaveM (& others) will be ranting at the person for posting a network question on the kernel list otherwise . JimL
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Have you tried CC'ing linux-kernel mailing list?
I could be wrong but linux-newbie seems a bit out of place for a post dealing with kernel code development.
the address is
[email protected]
and you can subscribe at www.kernel.org
Just a suggestion, I hope you find the answers you're looking for there.
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