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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: "Justin C.Walker" <justin@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD TCP/IP relation to Mac OS/X? 
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They also have (apparently) a link-layer
abstraction that shares some characteristics of Netgraph,
but I haven't looked at it yet.


On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Justin C.Walker wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 11:37 , George V. Neville-Neil wrote:
> 
> >> I can comment from the Mac OS X perspective...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > And one last question:
> >
> > Did these changes make it back into FreeBSD?
> 
> The short answer is 'no'.
> 
> The longer answer is that noone has had the time or interest to do 
> this.  Now that I'm (hrm) between engagements, I may have some free time 
> to take a look at it, but as I indicated, the media layer changes are 
> significant.  A lot of what is in FreeBSD now has not been ported to 
> Darwin (dummynet, ...), so it's a fair amount of work.  Unless there is 
> a strong interest in it, the best that could happen, I think, is that it 
> sits in the ports section, gathering dust...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Justin
> 
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