Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:14:05 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table |
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"David S. Miller" wrote: > > La Monte H.P. Yarroll writes: > > Matt D. Robinson writes: > > > Is there any way to add in the capability to _replace_ TCP with > > > your own, so you can use your own layer? > > ABSOLUTELY NOT! > > And I will never in my lifetime allow such a facility to be added to > the Linux kernel. > > This allows people to make proprietary implementations of TCP under > Linux. And we don't want this just as we don't want to add a way to > allow someone to do a proprietary Linux VM.
Then again, maybe someone has a reason to use a different TCP stack, ie to support something like a high-availiblity stack between two different machines...
Why would you be scared of a proprietary TCP stack? If Open Source is so much better (and I believe it is), then there would be nothing to lose. And if the new stack helped a small subset of people who would otherwise have an even sorrier life implementing it on some other platform, then that is better, right?
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