Re: New Address Family: Inter Process Networking (IPN)

[Andi Kleen]

renzo@xxxxxxxxxxx (Renzo Davoli) writes:

> Berkeley socket have been designed for client server or point to point
> communication. All existing Address Families implement this idea.

Netlink is multicast/broadcast by default for once. And BC/MC certainly
works for IPv[46] and a couple of other protocols too.

> IPN is an Inter Process Communication paradigm where all the processes
> appear as they were connected by a networking bus.

Sounds like netlink. See also RFC 3549

Haven't read further I admit.

-Andi
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