[comp.sys.sun] Sun kernel ignorance - cure required

kquinlan@edg.cv.co.uk (Kevin Quinlan) (02/02/90)

For the last few months I have been struggling with getting a Sun 2 (SunOS
3.3) to route TCP/IP over AX25.  I have KA9Q net running (well just) but
that is not really a good solution (for me) for a number of reasons that I
won't go into here.

So I have tried to come up with a solution that gets my packets for the
AX25 network into and out of the kernel in order to use all those nice BSD
comms facilities.  I have looked at SLIP and and Julian Onions Tunnel
Driver - but I need to do some hacking on these drivers and this is where
my problem arises.

I find after looking at all the header files and reading Leffler et al's
wonderful book that there are still huge holes in my knowledge about how
things work in the kernel and in the internet domain in particular.  I
don't have access to the source, but there must be more documentation and
that's where I am asking for help.  Does anyone know of any documentation
that describes the data structures and data flows in a SunOS kernel
especially the handling of TCP/IP.

Kevin Quinlan

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