From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 12 00:58:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles196.castles.com [208.214.165.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13858 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:58:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01257; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808120756.AAA01257@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Duncan Barclay cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: Network stack assumptions In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:44:46 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:56:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On 11-Aug-98 Mike Smith wrote: > >> Okay, can the kernel cope with a device hanging off a USB port or > >> integrated into the motherboard or a PCI card which provides wireless > >> LAN capabilities with mutliple protocols running on it? > > > > Not as it stands, no. By this I mean that we have no protocol support > > for these devices, however the infrastructure is there to handle this. > > Good, I brought it up as there was a section in the SWAP spec. where mumble > company said their new OS doesn't have this capability. Our stack is designed for multiple protocols, and the infrastructure exists for connection-oriented and connectionless application interfaces. > These technologies aren't going to hit the streets for a couple of years yet and > as they are literally industry standards who knows how "Open" they will be. Lets > hope that we don't get into an I2O situtation. Indeed; I expect these standards to go somewhere. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message