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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:40:20PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I'm not trying to stat a flame war here, but it is frustrating and this
> initiative for a major network code overhaul makes me hope that
> something will actually happen. It's just that FreeBSD's network stack
> was once the best around and it's simply not today. Andre's proposal
> could go a LONG way toward fixing this and I am eagerly looking forward
> to if!

We're definitely playing catchup in the feature stakes.

Protests have not fallen on deaf ears, but we all have things to do.

Rest assured some of this is on my TODO as well.

BMS