How is network stack implemented in Fiasco/l4Re

Yuxin Ren ryx at gwmail.gwu.edu
Wed Nov 4 16:30:28 CET 2015


Yes, I am not interested in L4Linux.
So there is no other example code to use network in L4Re.
Is this correct?

Thanks
Yuxin

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Adam Lackorzynski
<adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue Nov 03, 2015 at 08:00:53 +0800, Yuxin Ren wrote:
>> I have a few questions about network stack in Fiasco/L4Re.
>
> Which one? Or a hypothetical one?
>
>> Is network stack implemented in the kernel or user level?
>
> User level of course.
>
>> If in user level, are different protocols (IP/TCP) implemented in a
>> single server or different servers?
>
> Typically single server but why not put TCP away, it's the more
> complicated part of the game.
>
>> If in different servers, how do they communicate with each other?
>
> Shared memory.
>
>> Is there any example code to show how to use network? How to send and
>> receive TCP or UDP packets?
>> How can I set up the network environment on bare metal machine? Is
>> there documentation or instruction?
>
> There's lwip+ankh but that bitrotted so any experience will not be
> pleasant. And then there's L4Linux but that's probably not what you're
> looking for.
>
>
>
> Adam
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