October 21, 2022
BSD TCP/IP for Kyu - major components
First, a list of things I intend to ignore (based on skimming the book).
- BPF - the Berkeley Packet Filter (chapter 31)
- SLIP - Serial Line internet (chapter 5) who uses this these days?
- Multicasting - chapter 12, 14
- IGMP - chapter 13 -- I don't intend to be a backbone router.
I very well may bypass other things related to routing, or simplify them.
I am willing to limit a Kyu host to being an endpoint host with a single gateway.
Cut to the chase -- TCP only
While it would certainly be interesting to do an intensive study of the book and
all of the Net2 source code, all I really need in Kyu is TCP.
So I could just pull and adapt that. I have a working IP layer, along with UDP
and ICMP. I should give this "short path" serious consideration.
No doubt it will require an in depth understanding of the BSD TCP game regardless.
Have any comments? Questions?
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