mja@TWG.COM (Mike Anello) (06/10/88)
>Mike - Being unwilling to show my ignorance to the whole tcp-ip list, >I will ask you: what is the difference between streams vs character ? >Does it have to do with System V vs 4.3 bsd ? Regards - Craig The difference is that streams based tcpip is built with stream drivers and modules where character based tcpip is built with UNIX V or BSD character device drivers. Two different technologies. Mike
philipp@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (Philip A. Prindeville) (06/13/88)
The difference is that streams based tcpip is built with stream drivers and modules where character based tcpip is built with UNIX V or BSD character device drivers. Two different technologies. Actually, BSD doesn't use character device drivers in the traditional sense. They use a different approach, with a network interface which provides a dispatch table (somewhat like the character or block device interface). As I remember, the networking code for Version 6 UNIX did the standard device model, but I forget the details. (Their might be an RFC on it.) -Philip