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From: Jerry Toung <jtoung@arc.nasa.gov>
To: Paolo Pisati <flag@libero.it>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>,
	Ping Pan <pingpan@cs.columbia.edu>, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>,
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Thank you all for the inputs, this should get me started faster.
Jerry.

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 05:07 am, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:02:40PM -0700, Jerry Toung wrote:
> > My problem is dealing with debuging and portability. With this raw
> > approach I guess I will have to run builkernel and installkernel all =
the
> > time. How can I avoid that? I thought about kernel modules, but I don=
't
> > know what kind to use (SYSCALL_MODULE or DEV_MODULE,etc..) and how ab=
out
> > netgraph.? does that make sense?
>
> i'm implementing a packet classification algorithm in FreeBSD using
> the Netgraph nodes, and i would reccomend you to do the same:
>
> writing a netgraph node is really simple (after you crash
> your os serveral times... =3D), and you can
> plug/unplug your code at any time without
> the need to reboot.
>