Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 23:55:05 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NLMs (Was: Re: This just in: Microsoft/Sears Merger) Message-ID: <19981223235505.A29194@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981223165817.asmodai@wxs.nl>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 04:58:17PM %2B0100 References: <4.1.19981223005658.00b44ee0@genesis.ispace.com> <XFMail.981223165817.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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According to Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai: > is still so close to DOS that even NLMs (NetWare Loadable Modules) are > still 8.3 That is the least of the problems with NLM. The two main ones IMO are that they run in ring 0 (making them closer to KLD modules than libs) and that they're a mess (all the dependancies, order of loading and so on) like Winlose DLLs. Example: we had a panic on our main Netware at work two days ago. It was the SNMP module (why the Hell do this thing have to run in ring 0 !?). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Nov 8 01:22:20 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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