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Overview of Network Drivers
A network driver is a kernel-level driver module that connects a communications device such as an Ethernet board to the IRIX implementation of TCP/IP. An overview of the IRIX networking subsystem is shown in Figure 16-1.
Figure 16-1 : Overview of Network Architecture
- Application Interfaces
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- Protocol Stack Interfaces
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- Device Driver Interfaces
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