From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 7 16:18:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF3337B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D1E43E4A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0030.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.30] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189wqo-0004pJ-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:18:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCB0240.C61DD2E7@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:16:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dolemite@wuli.nu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgraph could be a router also. References: <20021108000159.GE86595@host4.rpi.wulimasters.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Newman wrote: > Could we implement {bgp & ospf} in netgraph? > What would need to be done assuming the Netgraph TCP/IP happen? > Is this a bad idea. Yes, you could do this. The Netgraph TCP/IP is a good idea for research work, but a bad idea for general implementation purposes, since it's performance will be very poor, compared to a monolithic TCP/IP implementation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message