From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 1 12:20:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04083 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04050 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yVLLJ-0006Jr-00; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:19:33 -0700 Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:19:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Pierre Beyssac cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements In-Reply-To: <19980501205833.A655@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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