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Preface
Part I£® General Background
1£® Introduction
Basic Terminology
Common Coding Patterns
User-Space Tools
Browsing the Source Code
When a Feature Is Offered as a Patch
2£® Critical Data Structures
The Socket Buffer£º sk_buff Structure
net_device Structure
Files Mentioned in This Chapter
3£® User-Space-to-Kernel Interface
Overview
procfs Versus sysctl
ioctl
Netlink
Serializing Configuration Changes

Part II£® System Initialization
4£® Notification Chains
Reasons for Notification Chains
Overview
Defining a Chain
Registering with a Chain
Notifying Events on a Chain
Notification Chains for the Networking Subsystems
Tuning via/proc Filesystem
Functions and Variables Featured in This Chapter
Files and Directories Featured in This Chapter
5£® Network Device Initialization
System Initialization Overview
Device Registration and Initialization
Basic Goals of NIC Initialization
Interaction Between Devices and Kernel
Initialization Options
Module Options
Initializing the Device Handling Layer£º net_dev_init
User-Space Helpers
Virtual Devices
Tuning via/proc Filesystem
Functions and Variables Featured in This Chapter
Files and Directories Featured in This Chapter
6£® The PCI Layer and Network Interface Cards
Data Structures Featured in This Chapter
Registering a PCI NIC Device Driver
Power Management and Wake-on-LAN
Example of PCI NIC Driver Registration
The Big Picture
Tuning via/proc Filesystem
Functions and Variables Featured in This Chapter
Files and Directories Featured in This Chapter

Part III Transmission and reception
Part IV Bridging
Part V Internet Protocol Version 4 £¨IPv4£©
Part VI Neighboring Subsystem
Part VII Routing