Kernel Networking Questions

From: ryan.tecco (rtecco@neochi.com)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 06:10:49 EST


        Hello all,

                I have investigated these things through other
        channels before posting here. I am not a subscriber to
        the mailing list, so if anyone could help, a personal reply
        would be much, much appreciated.

        First, passing AF_UNSPEC on a re-connect of a UDP socket
        will not "disconnect" it, as is the standard behavior.
        What was the reasoning behind the decision for this? Is
        it a feature waiting to be added? Is there a patch somewhere?

        Secondly, BSD style kernels have a dev filesystem entry for
        tunnel devices, but it appears that Linux does not. How does
        Linux deal with tunnel devices as opposed to a BSD kernel? Is
        there a patch to allow access to the tunnel device from the
        filesystem? Again, what was the design rationale behind this?

        Thanks in advance for any info!

        rt
        

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