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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:34:09 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Darren Reed <darrenr@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net radix.c
Message-ID:  <20040422133409.GI722@empiric.dek.spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040422075247.GB27025@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20040422051953.GA27025@hub.freebsd.org> <200404220643.i3M6hNph001564@green.homeunix.org> <20040422075247.GB27025@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:52:47AM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> The one I'm referring to is almost a line by line code walkthrough
> of 4.4BSD's networking - which is the foundation for FreeBSD's.
> You won't find a better resource for understand the routing code.
> 
> As for how out of date it is...an exercise for the reader.

The mbuf rewrite alone was enough to change everything, not to mention all
the additions since, e.g. TAO, the syncache, SACK (to come), and RFC 2385.

The Stevens series can be regarded as a roadmap, albeit an out of date one,
IMHO.

Regards,
BMS



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