From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 31 17:46:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6211A1065676 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB5C8FC2D for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EE8546B03; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:46:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: shashidhara none In-Reply-To: <7cce29b51001310550v55791a46m133cef72d4cc2345@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <7cce29b51001310550v55791a46m133cef72d4cc2345@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contribution to FreeBSD network stack X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:46:46 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, shashidhara none wrote: > I am interested to contribute to FreeBSD network stack. I found some > projects at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Networking . But could not figure out > how to start working on the same. Please help. Hi Shashi-- The FreeBSD network stack is a very large piece of code, and there are lots of opportunities to get involved helping to measure and improve its behavior, add new features, etc. Could you say a bit more about your background -- have you done much kernel programming and/or network stack programming before? Robert