Porting networking to user level

[ece from twp]

Hi,   I would like to take timing measures in the tcp/ip stack of the linux kernel to test its performance. Because I need to isolate it from the rest of the kernel in order to get accurate numbers, I was thinking to port the whole networking stack up to the user level where I can run it on top of a simulator to take the measures. Does anybody have an isolated version of the linux networking code that can run on the user level? Or any opinion of how to do that? When coding the networking stack, do you work directly on the kernel or you do it separetely?   Thanks a lot!!!!   Jordi   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jordi Ros                                             email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical and Computer Engineering      voice (work): (949) 622 0991 University of California, Irvine                  www: http://www.eng.uci.edu/~jros -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------