[ECOS] Socket- How to register new address family.

[ECOS] Socket- How to register new address family.

[Biju PN]

Hi all,

I would like to know whether it is possible to register a new address
family into the socket module in eCos. I am looking for something
similar to sock_register() in Linux.

Any help on this is highly appreciated.

regards
Biju PN

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Re: [ECOS] Socket- How to register new address family.

[Andrew Lunn]

tOn Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:04:45PM +0530, Biju PN wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know whether it is possible to register a new address
> family into the socket module in eCos. I am looking for something
> similar to sock_register() in Linux.
> 
> Any help on this is highly appreciated.

I think this is a function of the netlink library, libnl. I also think
this is something very Linux specific since i think it uses the
netlink kernel calls to get access to raw packets etc. 

The TCP/IP stack in eCos is the FreeBSD stack. It uses a different
architecture. So i don't think the netlink library is going to work on
eCos. You should look to see if there is a FreeBSD equivelent library
and use that.

There are lots of 'I think' there, so you should really check i have
this right.

        Andrew


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