netdev - Re: We have FUSE, could we have NUSE ?

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:52:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	matti.aarnio@...iler.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: We have FUSE, could we have NUSE ?

From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:53:20 +0200

> We do have a support of file-system engine in userspace process.
> Could we have a socket interfaced network protocol engine in userspace ?

People can and have done this using the TUN/TAP device.
There is even an ad-hoc IPSEC implementation with X-AUTH
support implemented in user space using TUN/TAP.
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