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From: CHAIBP@NUSDISCS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: desperately need an answer
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Date: 7 Jun 90 02:18:00 GMT
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Clark, in his RFC 817, said that kernel implementation
of TCP/IP would subject to many system limitations and
suggested that only part of TCP/IP should be placed in
the kernel, leaving the rest in the user processes.

Now, what I don't understand is that why everybody still
put the entire TCP/IP in the kernel - AT&T system V,
Sun BSD Unix and many others all does just that. Does
that mean that those limitations are never faced by them
or that they have actually took his advice but provided the
interfaces to the user processes in a way that gives
them the illusion of interfacing with the kernel ?

Desperately need an answer on that ! Please give me
an answer if you do have one.

Chai