Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack?

Re:Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? by hannesm on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:03AM (#12025083)

You have seen the network semantics research project https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/Netsem/index.html? It is a formal model of TCP/IP validated with Linnux 2.4.20/FreeBSD-4.6/Windows XP (yes, that was ~10 years ago).

It is nowadays BSD licensed on GitHub https://github.com/PeterSewell/netsem (and I'm currently reviving it https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/HuginnTCP/)...

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Re:Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? by throwaway000002 on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:17AM (#12025920)

No, I wasn't aware. Thank you for pointing this work out. This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for. Wonderful!

I can't wait to see what you have planned.

I was thinking after I posted my comment, that it'd be cool if someone could produce a fuzz tester that used both the specification, and the fact that you can turn the Linux and NetBSD network stacks into libraries (libOS and rumpkernel respectively) and co-engineer/evolve the spec whilst also finding and fixing bugs in both the network stacks.

Excited by what you'll be up to!

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Re:Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? by hannesm on Sunday July 03, 2016 @10:03AM (#12026082)

hmm, my other OS is MirageOS (https://mirage.io) -- also see https://nqsb.io contains my previous two years of work ;)

I'd rather call it extensive exploration than fuzz testing what is in my mind...

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