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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:30:28 +0400
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
To: marks@ripe.net, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: new ng_device
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 Here is a major rewrite of ng_device. The main
differencies with current one are:

- one dev per node
- locking
- read queue implemented using struct ifqueue, thus
  reducing number of reads/writes to temporary buffers.

A more detailed list of differencies is attached. A test program
also attached.

P.S. Yet another crazy netgraph idea: ng_iface + ng_device is
a substitute for tun(4). I should write a patch for ppp(8)
to work with ng_iface. :)

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
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