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The VIP module functionality analysis and design

The VIP module implements the IP protocol functionalities, it is spawned for each new interface. It handles datagram sending , receiving and forwarding ( routing ). It also accesses the VARP and VRIP tables to get informations while processing IP packets. The implementation of the VIP module follows the standard IP secification.



Last changed 2004-08-25.
Zrelli Saber. , Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Shinoda-lab
zrelli@jasit.ac.jp