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Inter-module communications

As mentionned before, the router is made of several network stacks , independent from each others and related to only one installed interface each.

the following figure shows this architecture and the inter-layer communications using FIFOs.

Figure 2.4: The big picture
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Last changed 2004-08-25.
Zrelli Saber. , Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Shinoda-lab
zrelli@jasit.ac.jp