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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] announcing rump kernel TCP/IP stack for DPDK
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On 23.05.2013 20:39, Daniel Cegiełka wrote:
> 2013/5/23 Robert Bays <robert@vyatta.com>:
>
>> Of course.  And many more times than that.  This is one more option for us and it is BSD licensed.
>>
>> Ultimately, we will probably need a TCP stack in there.
>
> indeed, but what do you mean by the TCP stack? I hope not the BSD sockets :)
> rx/tx bufs+simple API is all you need.

Luckily, ripping out sockets and replacing them with a "high-speed 
aware" API is easier than starting from a simple API and implementing 
IPv{4,6}, TCP, IPsec, ...