Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:30:18 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@UU.NET> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Louis A. Mamakos": kernel networking features contribution.. Message-ID: <199901131530.KAA21929@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <8498.916206643@sayshell.corp.us.uu.net> References: <199812101740.SAA22071@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <8498.916206643@sayshell.corp.us.uu.net>
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<<On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:50:43 -0500, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@UU.NET> said: > The good news is that I've got approval from my management at UUNET to > contribute this software to the FreeBSD project. Great, and let me apologize for not responding to your earlier message -- it got buried deep in the last few weeks' stack of mail. This sounds a lot like something I would have liked to have built a few years ago when I was still working on integrated-services stuff.... > The timestamp (and other status and control info) is stored in 3 32bit > integers in a modified struct pkthdr inside an mbuf. In a related change, > the default mbuf size was increased from 128 to 256 bytes to avoid > any unfortunate side effects for protocols (e.g., PPP) that assume they > have so-much space available in the first mbuf which would have been 12 > bytes smaller. That's fine; I've been thinking that we should do this for some time, regardless. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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