linux TCPIP stack design

Tue May 17 19:43:33 UTC 2005

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:40:38PM -0700, Joseph Kubik wrote:
> Sometimes:
> nfs boot, I would argue, is a kernel talking at the application layer.
> Can someone confirm this?

True, but NFS only uses tcp/udp packets, I don't think it really
abstracts out any of the top 3 layers.  Almost nothing does.

Lennart Sorensen
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