[4216] in linux-net channel archive
sk_buff <-> mbuf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Boulez)
Wed Aug 28 10:41:21 1996
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:58:36 +0200 (MDT)
From: Kris Boulez <Kris.Boulez@rug.ac.be>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Hello,
I'm reading through "TCP/IP illustrated volume 2" in which the authors
(Gary Wright and Richard Stevens) describe the Net/3 implementation.
While reading through the book I would also like to have a look from time to
time at the linux networking code (which is based on Net/3 I think).
The authors talk constantly about 'mbuf' (memory buffer) this
seems to be replaced in the linux code by 'sk_buff'. Is this just a
synonym or is this fundamentally different ? Is there a paper which
describes the differences in the linux networking with respect to the
original Net/3 code ? Are these differences small/big ?
Kris,
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Kris Boulez (Kris.Boulez@rug.ac.be)
Biomolecular NMR unit <http://bionmr1.rug.ac.be/~kris>
University of Ghent, Belgium
