From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 19:08:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E828C16A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outV.internet-mail-service.net (outV.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA10213C4B7 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:08:41 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (nat.ironport.com [63.251.108.100]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23198125B2F; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <467C1E3C.1020203@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:08:44 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Net , releng@freebsd.org, ambrisko@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marko Zec Subject: Vimage virtual networking and 7.0 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: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:42 -0000 In the future I am hoping to be able to use vimage in our products. They are based at the moment on 6.1, but I can see in a year they will be based on 7.x. Patches for 7.0 and vimage are currently available in perforce. What I would like to see is if there are any parts of that patch that would allow us to make adding of vimage to 7.1 an easier task. For example, Anything that would prevent vimage from needing an API change that would prevent it from being added later. I am quite disappointed that despite Marko's best efforts, we miss the 7.0 release but if it can be made nonintrusive enough I'd really like to see if it can get in 7.1. Personally, if I were "god" I'd put it in now because it can be compiled out. and it wouldn't be compiled by default.Maybe only just bits of it.. for sure I want the ability to have many routing tables. and I'm not thrilled about the requirement to have my own patch sets for this and thus not allowing others to use this feature.