Kevin, Perhaps I am wrong, but I think the task is an assignment in a graduate course at some university because this type of query always seems to appear on this list at this time of year. It is always a STREAMS module, and it is always this general distributed computing task.
--brian On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Kevin Krieser wrote: > > I guess some more information about why you want to do it this way may > be in order. > > > Unless you are trying to shoehorn your way below some other > application that can't be rewritten, why can't you just use TCP and do > it in userspace? > > > Or, a combination of the 2. A module that captures the application > data, redirects it back up to user space, and let that transfer it to > the other computer. > > > It is normally much easier to develop and debug in user space than at > lower levels. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > kinGkonGkoli > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 8:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Linux-streams] Request for Information > > > I am a totally newbie to Linux STREAMS. > > I am writing a streams module ( distribution module ). The operations > that need to be performed by this are - > > 1. recieve data from user applications. > > 2. send it to different distribution module's running on different > linux machines in the network. > > > With respect to my second part , i wanted to know few information. > > > To send data across network to other machine from the streams module, > which streams driver and module are best to use ? > > > How the information and machine address is conveyed to the underlying > modules ?? > > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > kinGkonGkoli > Bangalore. -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
