netdev - Re: Fwd: Network Core

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2008 19:38:17 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk>
To:	"Diego ." <eljedi@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Network Core

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Diego . wrote:

> I'm a kernel newbie.
>
> I'm trying to figure how hard it will be build some SMA protocol
> inside linux kernel. But i coud'nt  find any information about linux
> network layer/core. I started looking at source code inside net/ dir
> before asking here.
>
> Could you point me to somewhere i can find some info about howto to
> port/create a network protocol to/on linux? ( i mean, some basic info
> like the one we can find with the fs layer. I'm not asking about a
> magic tutorial about how to port my protocol ). Or some basic network
> layer info.

I'll recommend the following book:

  "Understanding Linux Network Internals"
  Publisher: O'Reilly
  Author: Christian Benvenuti

Its from 2006 and is about 2.6.x kernel.  I mainly used it when writing a 
Ethernet DSA protocol handler, although for a 2.4.20 kernel on an embedded 
system.  Stephen Hemminger browsed through the book, at my house, and 
noted that it was not quite up-to-date, but close enough.

Cheers,
   Jesper Brouer

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