Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:12:42 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph Message-ID: <20000427111242.C15268@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <200004262038.QAA44813@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 04:38:26PM -0400 References: <200004260055.RAA55462@bubba.whistle.com> <200004261019.MAA43188@luxren2.boostworks.com> <20000426153100.A1623@waterspout.com> <200004262038.QAA44813@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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-On [20000426 22:45], Garrett Wollman (wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) wrote: ><<On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:31:00 -0500, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> said: > >> But bridging is a layer-2 operation. Shouldn't it happen with the >> layer-2 processing, not in the driver for the physical device? > >To quote Dave Clark: > ># Layering can be a good way to design protocols, but is not necessarily ># a good way to implement them, if you care about performance. Correct, but there is also a difference between a more cleaned up and structured approach and the current `let's patch it' approach. I have already been discussing some things with C. Stephen about producing a bit of a smallish paper investigating the current stuff, what could be changed, what problems we currently have with the code, etc etc. Kind of like the VM restructuring, the newbus structuring. I am sure that I cannot do this completely on my own, and I think it would benefit everybody if we would concentrate on this piece of code for the coming time. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl> VIA Net.Works The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.via-net-works.nl Answering the questions that no one asks... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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