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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:58:23 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <20040302145823.GD44317@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org>
References:  <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:18:34PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>  [] update and write more documentation for the network stack and related
>     code.  (started)

Is the work-in-progress posted somewhere public? I'd like to read
through it, and patience (waiting for the finished version) isn't one of
my strong traits ;-)

>  [] move IPv4 routing to its own optimized routing table structure and
>     add multi-path and policy-routing options.  (planned)

*cheers*

OSPF ECMP (and BGP, for that matter) will be finally work.

>  [] profile (don't speculate) common network server usages overall and
>     in specific detail in depth in the network code.  (planned)

I'd like to see the results of that posted somewhere too.

>  [] write a network statistics (only local, no sniffing) gathering daemon
>     that collects vital real world IP and TCP behaviourial statistics.
>     (planned)

For self-tuning purposes, or for export to a reporting tool?


This was all great news, thanks!

-T


-- 
In a corrupt age, when prayers are not answered, that itself is the answer.
	Muso Kokushi



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