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TCP/IP for MINIX, the good, the bad, the ugly

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TCP/IP for MINIX, the good, the bad, the ugly
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I wrote inet (the TCP/IP stack on MINIX) for two reasons: I like to come upwith my own designs for everything and, most of all, I had to impress AndyTanenbaum enough to become a Ph.D. student. Inet had to fit in with MINIX. Inparticular, it had to live with minimal changes to the MINIX code base. At thesame time, there were quite a few areas where I felt sockets and the BSDTCP/IP implementation were wrong. In hindsight, there is a lot that I did not know and got wrong. I this talk, Iwill look at how inet follows the structure of MINIX, what works, and whatwent wrong.