Re: Tux and TCP

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Collins, Tom wrote:

> I am looking into the possibility of porting TUX to our hardware
> platform.  I was wondering what issues (performance or otherwise), lead
> TUX to have such a heavy entanglement with TCP?

it's not really entangled on any conceptual level, any socket-based
networking protocol should be OK. Cleaning up TUX to get rid of TCP-only
dependencies should not affect performance in any way. It should be as
easy as fixing places that use a TCP-specific function instead of calling
a generic socket-level handler (that is the same function in the TCP
case).

> A second (hopefully not a stupid) question:  Is there any high-level
> architecture document that explains how TUX functions?

not that i'm aware of (the source code should be a pretty good reference
though) - but i'll try to answer any design questions asked on this list.

	Ingo