Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: projects? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206201318480.32100-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020620103130.B23020@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:07PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > > He is however "quite sick" of networking, and was originally looking at > > the VM code as a potential area (he is gaining an interest in > > parallelization and synchronization). > > Something I'd like to see which is unfortunatly network releated is ng_ip, > ng_tcp, and ng_udp netgraph modules. Since the networking code already > exists (though it's probably got a number of layering violations in it > that would need to be sorted out) this would be more of an infrastructure > project then a networking project. It would have things to measure > (comparative throughput and latency, for example.) If these modules > were available, netgraph would become much more intresting as a basis > for network research (say building distributed simulators). Later > researchers could add ng_tcp_reno, ng_tcp_vegas, or even ng_tca_daytona > (the messed up "accelerated" tcp which acks each byte seperatly.) I've been considereing this as a fun project. The difficult comes at the interface/IP boundary.. we'd need am ng_route node to multiplex the packets to the correct output nodes... :-) > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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