[NTLUG:Discuss] March Meeting Announcement

[Stuart Yarus]

>From: Gary Lelvis <gary_lelvis at administaff.com>
>To: 'DFWUUG Notify' <notify at dfwuug.org>, 'DFWUUG Newsletter'
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>Cc: "'Kevin Smith @ Turbolinux'" <ksmith at turbolinux.com>
>Subject: March Meeting Announcement
>Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:24:56 -0600
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>The March 2nd meting will feature a developer from TurboLinux in California:
>
>Title: Implementation and Design of Networking Subsystems in the Linux
>Kernel.
>
>Speaker: Jay Schulist, Senior Software Engineer with TurboLinux
>
>Bio: Jay Schulist is currently employed at TurboLinux as a Senior Software
>Engineer and leader of the Networking Group. Schulist began his Linux work
>by creating extensions to Appletalk and Novell for the Linux kernel. Since
>then Schulist has created numerous networking layers and drivers for Linux,
>including Localtalk, TokenRing, IBM Channel, IEEE 802.2 and miscellaneous
>enhancements.
>
>Besides Schulist's work at TurboLinux he is the Linux-SNA Project Leader.
>Schulist's efforts in the SNA arena include full APPN and LU 6.2 protocol
>implementation along with a large number of other IBM SNA Standards and
>APIs. 
>
>Summary: (edited per the author's request)
>The talk will be based on the latest 2.3.x kernels and will focus on the
>general implementation of networking layers within Linux, using the
>Linux-SNA networking layer as the example. Included will be discussion of
>the Linux networking layer structure, the tying of the networking layer to
>the kernel, the implementation of standard APIs using existing kernel
>facilities, and buffer management (including the use of the new Advanced
>Kernel Buffers (skb pools). 
>
>
>

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