From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 11 18:22:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB5616A417 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:22:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from qing.li@bluecoat.com) Received: from whisker.bluecoat.com (whisker.bluecoat.com [216.52.23.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C0713C465 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:22:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from qing.li@bluecoat.com) Received: from bcs-mail2.internal.cacheflow.com (bcs-mail2.internal.cacheflow.com [10.2.2.59]) by whisker.bluecoat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBBI4w1N006248; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:04:59 -0800 (PST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:04:52 -0800 Message-ID: <305C539CA2F86249BF51CDCE8996AFF408FC5B14@bcs-mail2.internal.cacheflow.com> In-Reply-To: <20071211004853.A51465@xorpc.icir.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: arp rewrite... Thread-Index: Acg70vMLXnSwSVCSTf+BfGZFvM4FrwATEWIg References: <475E4C45.2050206@elischer.org> <20071211004853.A51465@xorpc.icir.org> From: "Li, Qing" To: "Luigi Rizzo" , "Julian Elischer" , Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: RE: arp rewrite... X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:22:16 -0000 Last time when I sent an email to net@ for comments, I received only limited feedback.=20 The New ARP code in my home directory on FreeFall and was=20 lasted updated on June-8-2007. It was based on then=20 CURRENT (7.0) and was tested to be working fine at that time. A bit more work would be necessary in locking though. I asked for code review and folks to play=20 with it. Again, the feedback was really scant.=20 The code is accessible at=20 http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/newarp-06-08-2007/ The question I asked then was "should I move forward?" I'd be more that happy to resume and be done with it. -- Qing > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Luigi Rizzo > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:49 AM > To: Julian Elischer; ales.cerri@tiscali.it > Cc: FreeBSD Net > Subject: Re: arp rewrite... >=20 > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I believe Qing-li (Sp?) did an arp rewrite.. >=20 > the story is a bit longer - Andre drafted the initial design,=20 > which i subsequently took over and with a student, Alessandro=20 > Cerri, (I am Cc-ing him) did a first implementation. This was=20 > probably around 2003. >=20 > Then Qing-li (Sp?) took over development of that code - last=20 > i heard of the code was around last summer. >=20 > I think our code at least was based on 4.x so it probably did=20 > not address locking very much (not sure how the routing code=20 > is locked these days, anyways). >=20 > Alessandro is actually around again playing with FreeBSD so=20 > he may remember more details (it was his thesis, after all!) >=20 > cheers > luigi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20