Re: Request for Information

Well, this makes sense.  I didn't think of this as being for training  
(or schooling) purposes.  As an excuse to get your feet wet in  
networking and streams programming, it makes more sense.


On Oct 22, 2005, at 1:30 AM, kinGkonGkoli wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Partially you are wrong and partially you are right. This is a sort  
> of assignment to me , but not as part of graduation. I am a newly  
> joined software engineer trainee.
>
> Past few weeks , 'm working on resource efficient way of passing  
> data on to the other side. Layer 2 device driver is too much for  
> me. Well i think i should sit back, relax and explore more.
>
> I checked out the idea of capturing data in module and passing it  
> on to user space for transmission. But that is a both time and  
> resource consuming. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> May be Mr. Brian view is true. He wants me to explore more of those  
> stuffs to myself.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions ---
> Will try and explore --- for sure.
>
>
> On 10/22/05, Brian F. G. Bidulock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Perhaps I am wrong, but I think the task is an assignment in a
> graduate course at some university because this type of query
> always seems to appear on this list at this time of year.  It is
> always a STREAMS module, and it is always this general
> distributed computing task.
>
> --brian
>
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Kevin Krieser wrote:
>
> >
> >    I guess some more information about why you want to do it this  
> way may
> >    be in order.
> >
> >
> >    Unless   you  are  trying  to  shoehorn  your  way  below   
> some  other
> >    application that can't be rewritten, why can't you just use  
> TCP and do
> >    it in userspace?
> >
> >
> >    Or,  a  combination  of the 2.  A module that captures the  
> application
> >    data,  redirects it back up to user space, and let that  
> transfer it to
> >    the other computer.
> >
> >
> >    It  is normally much easier to develop and debug in user space  
> than at
> >    lower levels.
> >
> >     
> ______________________________________________________________________
> >
> >    From: [email protected]
> >    [mailto:[email protected] ]     On     
> Behalf    Of
> >    kinGkonGkoli
> >    Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:35 AM
> >    To: [email protected]
> >    Subject: [Linux-streams] Request for Information
> >
> >
> >    I am a totally newbie to Linux STREAMS.
> >
> >    I  am writing a streams module ( distribution module ). The  
> operations
> >    that need to be performed by this are -
> >
> >    1. recieve data from user applications.
> >
> >    2.  send  it  to  different distribution module's running on  
> different
> >    linux machines in the network.
> >
> >
> >    With respect to my second part , i wanted to know few  
> information.
> >
> >
> >    To  send data across network to other machine from the streams  
> module,
> >    which streams driver and module are best to use ?
> >
> >
> >    How  the information and machine address is conveyed to the  
> underlying
> >    modules ??
> >
> >
> >    Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> >    --
> >    kinGkonGkoli
> >    Bangalore.
>
> --
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>
>
>
> -- 
> kinGkonGkoli
> Bangalore.