From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jan 30 12:20:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06382 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomad.dataplex.net ([208.2.87.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06371 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from localhost (rkw@localhost) by nomad.dataplex.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA43528; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:14:11 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Wackerbarth To: Archie Cobbs cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph... In-Reply-To: <199901301944.LAA10242@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since we are all in (general) agreement that 1: The node-node messages are in binary 2: Only ngctl'ish programs need the ascii 3: Their traffic is "low volume" may I suggest moving much of this burden into (a library of) ngctl. Each node could be "read" to get the template for its binary control messages. The "bloat" of the actual parsing would be shifted to the parser which remains in the ngctl program (library). And if we could implement that in the node by "dumping" the contents of its ELF "message format" section. On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > >It's important that control message delivery between nodes be as > > >fast as possible > > > > I'm not talking about control messages between nodes, I'm talking > > ONLY about control messages between ME as root via the ngctl program > > to some specific node, to get it to do something or other. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message