From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 17 14:32: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F7A37B505 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larse@ISI.EDU) Received: from isi.edu (hbo.isi.edu [128.9.160.75]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05501; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39737B26.6A03BBDE@isi.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:31:18 -0700 From: Lars Eggert Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: itojun@iijlab.net Cc: snap-users@kame.net, stable@freebsd.org, xbone@ISI.EDU Subject: Re: (KAME-snap 2942) Re: KAME/FreeBSD-stable merge References: <14186.963868537@coconut.itojun.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG itojun@iijlab.net wrote: > > >> is there any reason why the (misnamed, but that's another issue) XBONEHACK > >> option was eliminated during the recent KAME/FreeBSD-stable merge? (File > >> /usr/src/sys/net/if_gif.c.) It took us a while to get this added to KAME, > >> and we'd really like to see it merged into FreeBSD. > > - it does not seem like a common option to me (it is just a quickhack > for supporting special need at xbone project, which could have been > handled as local patch), and it does not seem to me good for > integrating into freebsd-current/releases The first xbone release has been downloaded a few hundred times in the first few days (I haven't looked at the logs since), and we've been on slashdot, so I'd say there is an audience out there. Also, it seems to me that there are plenty of options in FreeBSD dealing with enabling support for 3rd party software packages, or experimental code for people to play with - off the top of my head: USER_LDT, XSERVER, NULL, PORTAL, UMAP, UNION, PPS_SYNC, ... The xbone switch falls in the same category. > - support issues (who handles questions about it? i don't want to) We will. Please add a comment saying that questions should be sent to xbone@isi.edu. -- Lars Eggert Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message