Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal

From: Grigor Gatchev
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 06:05:06 EST




On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:

>
> I think TOE (TCP/IP stack on the ethernet card) might be one of those
> things which doesn't fit cleanly into the layered model.

Yes. More such things exist. That is why it is hard to design a good
layered model...

And I keep thinking that the right place of a TCP/IP stack is not inside
the NIC. If God designed the man this way, where he would put our brains?
;-)


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