From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 00:05:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F3016A403 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:05:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1EE13C459 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:05:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A10E4719C; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:34:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:34:25 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20070328003340.L98103@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Looking for users of IPX over IP tunneling (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:05:49 -0000 Please reply privately to this e-mail if you are using IPX over IP tunneling. See below for details. Thanks, Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:08:30 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson To: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Looking for users of IPX over IP tunneling On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Robert Watson wrote: > Over the next couple of weeks, I will be reviewing the set of non-MPSAFE > network stack components in preparation for a status update to the arch@ > mailing list. One of the remaining components that requires Giant is the IPX > over IP tunneling facility (ipx_ip). I'd like to solicit users of this > facility, if any, to work with me in testing locking patches I'm currently > developing against FreeBSD 7.x. > > I'm actually not entirely convinced this feature works, so would also like to > hear from users of IPX over IP tunneling for this reason. I've found a > couple of bugs that would result in improper error messages being returned, > etc. There's also a comment in the NOTES file that this feature is "not > available". Still looking for IPX over IP users. Please let me know if you use IPX over IP tunneling support, and/or if you would be able to test MPSAFEty patches on 6.x or 7.x. The other easy route here is to remove IPX over IP tunnel support from 7.0 and then reintroduce it if testers are found in the future, but such scenarios generally don't lead to feature re-introduction, so if this is a feature you care about, then please get in touch with me. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"