From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 6 12:46:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28621 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28591 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA17833; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma017831; Tue Oct 6 12:45:45 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA21541; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199810061945.MAA21541@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: MIT Exokernel OS In-Reply-To: <19981005140923.F2924@cypher.net> from Ben Black at "Oct 5, 98 02:09:23 pm" To: black@cypher.net (Ben Black) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: nialls@euristix.ie, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Black writes: > i have been playing with their exopc distribution. i think the most > immediately interesting aspect for freebsd is the DPF code. it dynamically > generates native filter code resulting in huge speedups. all multiplexing > of network interfaces is via DPF. would be an interesting addition > and the license is just right. There's a good programming project for someone.. put DPF in the kernel and make all of the networking stacks, ip, tcp, ipfw, etc. use it! -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message