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Re: Help to find Book

On Tuesday, November 25, 2003, at 10:18 PM, Girish wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to this mailling list.I want to do some
kernel mode programming related to user client for
ethernet.

While searching related book on www.apple.com,I
found reference of one book
"Inside Mac OS X: Network Kernel Extensions"

I suspect that this is a Work In Progress. In 10.2, in file:///Developer/Documentation/Darwin/IOKit/DeviceDrivers/Network/, there is a file called NKE.pdf. This is a fairly raw document, and a bit out of date, but it will show you the architecture and some of the basics. The logic of its placement is a bit obscure.

This has wandered away in 10.3, and in its place is mostly empty space. In the DarwinCoreOS/Conceptual/kernelProgramming section (an html file) there is a bit on NKEs in the Network Architecture section, but it emphasizes 'conceptual'.

Be aware that the NKE architecture currently relies on "open" access to the rest of the BSD kernel, which is not a particularly good thing (except for experimentation). Apple is working on a "Kernel API" to support extensions of this type, but it's in it's gestation period now.

Regards,

Justin

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