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Subject: Re: Who was making IPPROTO_foo dynamic?
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> Somebody somewhere was making IP protocols dynamically loadable.
>
> I would like to make PIM the default in -CURRENT in ip_mroute.ko so that it 
> may be dynamically loaded into GENERIC. At the moment, that isn't possible, 
> because PIM requires hookup to ip_input() by way of a ipprotosw.
>
> Please make yourself known to me, our work overlaps...

I believe that that was Andre Oppermann.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge