Table 1. Configuring and Starting up Network
USER SPACE COMMANDS | KERNEL SPACE (DRIVER) ACTIONS
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Create a configuration file containing: | None
1. Hardware Type: PCI or ISA |
2. Hardware Option |
3. WAN Protocol |
4. Protocol Options |
5. Firmware Location |
6. Network Interface Name |
7. IP addresses |
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Load WANPIPE Driver Modules | 1. Setup the /proc file system
modprobe wanpipe.o | directories
| 2. Allocate the adapter pointer array:
| size equal to the maximum number
| cards supported. This array will be
| used to store configured adapter structures.
| 3. Enable the ioctl system calls
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Parse the configuration file and | 1. Configure adapter
send the configuration data via | 2. Allocate resources
ioctl call to the driver. | 3. Load the correct protocol firmware
| 4. Start the firmware on adapter
| 5. Test interrupts
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Parse all protocol and IP data | 1. Configure the netowork adapter
from the configuration file | 2. Allocate a network interface
for the protocol on each | (Device structure)
interface defined, and pass | 3. Initialize and register
it to the driver via IOCTL | the device structure
system call. | 4. Allocate and configure
| device private area
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Using ifconfig(), bring each | 1. dev->open() function will be
network interface up and set up its | invoked in the driver which will
Local and P2P IP addresses. Also, | enable communications and
set the interface as default gateway | interrupts on the adapter.
if such an option is selected. |
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