Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:24:56 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions... Message-ID: <20010929002456.M59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200109290424.VAA2685096@meer.meer.net>; from gnn@neville-neil.com on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:25:02PM -0700 References: <200109290424.VAA2685096@meer.meer.net>
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* George V. Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> [010928 23:25] wrote: > OK, several people said I should just send this to -net so here you are. > > I have a few questions about the direction and code base for the FreeBSD > TCP/IP stack. > > 1) Is there a published list of "TODOs" that y'all are working on to > add/modify the system? Not that I know of. > 2) How different is -CURRENT from -STABLE? This can be answered by reading archives of the mailing lists and newflashes. The most signifigant changes that I can think of are: SMP primatives KSE FFS Snapshots Cardbus > 3) Will the code be multi-threaded for SMP? Hopefully. > 4) Will y'all continue to periodically integrate the Kame code as you v6 > solution? I can't say yes or no, but it looks like this is the pattern we are following, in fact it seems like it's actuallty the KAME guys doing a lot of work to integrate into _us_. > 5) Will the v6 code by multi-threaded? Hopefully, there's nothing inherently bad with it that will make it too difficult. > Well, that's a start. Why the sudden interest? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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