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Re: n-hurd networking
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Simon Law |
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Re: n-hurd networking |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:23:39 -0400 |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:22:02PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> My dreaming suggest the following:
>
> One IP address is allocated to each individual Hurd, and an additional
> IP address is allocated to the collective as a whole. Generally, only
> the latter is seen by most users.
>
> The Hurd's use their individual IP addresses to talk to each other and
> to send Mach (or whatever kernel) IPC with network transparency.
>
> The Collective's IP address is managed something like as follows:
>
> Each Hurd has a copy of the routing table.
>
> Each Hurd has responsibility for some subset of the incoming network
> traffic. Each TCP connection, for example, is owned by a particular
> Hurd. Each SYN listener is owned by a particular Hurd. Etc. For
> obvious reasons, the Collective tries to have the owner of a network
> connection be the same Hurd on which is running the user land program
> that has the socket open.
>
> Listening to ICMP would generally be owned by only a single Hurd.
Wouldn't it be easier to have the Hurd running closest to the
hardware, the one on boot, have full control of the network? Any
sub-Hurds could be running on a private internal network, and the
primary Hurd could do NAT.
Of course, this would require something like Netfilter to be
ported. *sigh*
Simon
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