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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:00:08 -0600
Subject: Re: support of iso networking
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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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So how great a delta exists between NetBSD and FreeBSD?
Can't the NetBSD code be used as a starting point?

Any written guidelines on how interface at the kernel?
Am I just stuck picking through the net* code?

BTW - The corporate IS guys run adelphia.com. They don't listen
to us. We just work here.

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 04:39  PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:32:43 -0600, "Joseph T. Klein" 
> <jtk@titania.net> said:
>
>> What is involved?
>
> A huge amount of work: converting the ancient netiso code to use
> modern kernel programming interfaces, figuring out MP/MT locking,
> adding the netiso support back to the protocol-independent parts of
> the kernel, fixing all the warnings, translating all of the anti-DoS
> code from TCP/IP into TP/CLNP....  It's not like we arbitrarily
> decided that we didn't like OSI and just threw it out the window.
>
>> Joseph T. Klein
>> Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator
>> Adelphia Backbone Team
>
> Oh, BTW, can you yell at whichever Exchange luser in your company is
> responsible for breaking the postmaster and abuse aliases today?  (See
> <http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=adelphia.com>.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>
>
--
Joseph T. Klein
Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator
Adelphia Backbone Team
PSTN: +1 414 628 3380   INOC-DBA: 19548*585


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