Re: lan based kgdb

From: Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 13:18:32 EST

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On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:35:03AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> netdump has polled eepro100 handlers that will plug nicely into this. Of
> course you still want a protocol on top of it, but there are some tiny
> tcp implementations that are GPL (eg the Linux 8086 TCP by Harry K)

TCP is complete overkill. You don't want to run a debugging protocol
over a WAN in any case. Let's assume LAN, 1ms or less round-trip,
let's assume polling ACKs per packet so we don't have to keep a
window, UDP with hand-specified src/dst/gateway/MACs/ports.

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