Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501121609.8861B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <19980501205833.A655@fasterix.frmug.fr.net>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > [ discussion copied to freebsd-net, please remove -current when replying ] > > On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 02:13:51PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > We should think carefully about what WE actually WANT to do (which is > > not necessarily the same as what NASA is paying Jason to do). > > I think A lot of their stuff is generally useful, the MTU discovery > stuff for example (although I don't exactly know what is in -current > and maybe we don't need to integrate NetBSD stuff). FreeBSD has had path MTU for a long time. It also correctly expired old cloned routes. I think in this area we are ahead of NetBSD. That is what makes it so complex. > The fast forwarding stuff is useful for people using FreeBSD as a > fast router. It is modular enough that I ported it in 2 hours, and > I'm currently running it. Everything is in one file (ip_flow.c) > and you just need to add hooks calling it when receiving packets > from the interfaces. Works ok for me so far between PPP and my > ethernet (which doesn't say much about the performance improvement Well, if you are running PPP over any kind of high speed serial, it would be useful. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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