Mark Santcroos wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it is possible to dynamicly add an address family from a
> kernel module.
>
> I ask this because I am working on IrDA support for FreeBSD. I want to
> create AF_IRDA and all the corresponding structures and functions.
>
> So would it be possible to add another network stack at runtime or is the
> code not ready for that?
we do this in ng_socket.c where we add our own protocol.
we even export the number of the protocol and domain to userland with sysctls
so one COULD run a program which doesn't know in advance what the
protocol and domain numbers are..
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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