From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jul 31 4:14: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from crufty.research.bell-labs.com (crufty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EE3637BC17 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pingpan@research.bell-labs.com) Received: from bronx.dnrc.bell-labs.com ([135.180.160.8]) by crufty; Mon Jul 31 07:12:53 EDT 2000 Received: from research.bell-labs.com (pingpan.lra.lucent.com [135.255.33.105]) by bronx.dnrc.bell-labs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA28701; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:12:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39855E9F.FA83B93@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:10:23 -0400 From: Ping Pan Organization: Bell Labs, Lucent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Ping Pan , Garrett Wollman , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: A new kernel extension to deal with IP option packets References: <20000730104427.A28035@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200007301827.OAA02982@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000730212106.D28035@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <3984D7FC.2C9970E7@cs.columbia.edu> <20000731103802.C32129@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Since this is my first submission to FreeBSD, I don't know the proper procedure. Sorry if I have offend anyone on this list. I trust you guys will make the right decision one way or the other.... From my stand point of view, the new socket family just makes the life easier for some of the stuff I am working on. That's all. :-) Best regards to all, - Ping Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > Hello Ping, > > -On [20000731 04:01], Ping Pan (pingpan@cs.columbia.edu) wrote: > >Jeroen, > > > >Please let us know if it is not good enough. > > Hmm? I wasn't saying that. I was merely commenting on Garret's words > that he wasn't particularly fond of it. > > My words were meant to say that if the idea and the code is good, it > will get accepted, one way or the other. If they aren't, they may serve > as education on how not to proceed. > No matter what way you look at it, it will always be beneficial since we > can learn from it. > > >We have already used the new kernel extension to design and develop a > >new lightweight Internet reservation protocol, YESSIR, on FBSD. We can > >process up to 10,000 reservations-per-second on a 700MHz Pentium-III > >PC. I have not officially released that code because I have not figured > >out the AltQ/DiffServ interface and have bugs here and there. But that > >will be a nice application eventually, I hope. > > I will always be interested in looking at things like this, regardless > of whether it gets integrated into FreeBSD or not. > > >BTW, some people have written to me privately on using the new socket > >family for their prototyping projects. > > Which is good, but it doesn't give you an advantage over the acceptance. > =) > > >Thanks for showing the interest. > > No problem, like I said, it will be useful no matter what. > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] > Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project > Abandon hope, all ye who enter here... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message