Implementing SIGTRAN for Linux Fast-STREAMS Design for Linux
Brian Bidulock · 2007
1 Background UNIX networking has a rich history. The TCP/IP protocol suite was first implemented by BBN using Sockets under a DARPA research project on 4.1aBSD and then incorporated by the CSRG into 4.2BSD [MBKQ97]. Lachmann and As-sociates (Legent) subsequently implemented one of the first TCP/IP protocol suite based on the Transport Layer Inter-face (TLI) [TLI92] and STREAMS [GC94]. Two other pre-dominant TCP/IP implementations on STREAMS surfaced at about the same time: Wollongong and Mentat. 1.1 STREAMS STREAMS is a facility first presented in a paper by Den-nis M. Ritchie in 1984 [Rit84], originally implemented on