From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 16 23:38:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10940 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles247.castles.com [208.214.165.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10888; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:38:04 GMT (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA00806; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804170635.XAA00806@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), current@FreeBSD.ORG, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp Subject: Re: Networking strategy for -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:33:34 +0200." <199804170633.IAA03123@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:35:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA10915 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote: > > One of the things that has been apparent is that FreeBSD is being > > used more and more as a firewall and router for people with > > special networking requirements. The networking code however > > is getting old, and needs work in various places. many people are > > also using it for experimentation. > > Julian, to put it very simple, you need to get DEVFS and possibly > softupdates finished before you get to commit any new halfbaked > solutions to -current. Do we want the DEVFS/SLICE code in before or after CAM? If we want before, then that can come prettymuch Right Now. I may have some time for this, if there's general agreement that that's what it will take. (Yes, Ken, I'll finish what I started there first 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message