From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 17 10:27:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05774 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05769 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:27:48 GMT (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA12486; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd012482; Fri Apr 17 17:22:24 1998 Message-ID: <35378E95.3F54BC7E@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:17:09 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Beyssac CC: Kenjiro Cho , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking strategy for -current References: <353699BD.ABD322C@whistle.com> <199804171244.VAA14149@hotaka.csl.sony.co.jp> <19980417160631.BO42933@mars.hsc.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pierre Beyssac wrote: > > According to Kenjiro Cho: > > I'm planning to move to -current once things become more stable on > > -current. I believe there will be no technical problem to merge the > > ALTQ framework into -current, and I'm willing to do it if there are > > enough people interested. I have ported the ALTQ stuff to -current.. (the kernel part anyhow..) I'll put the patches up for ftp later today.. > > The IPv6 INRIA code includes ALTQ as an option. Since I've ported > this code to -current, most of the porting work for ALTQ to -current is > done except for one or two small compile nits (a problem with a change > in queuing macros). I haven't had time to test ALTQ yet, and it's not the > latest version. If anyone using -current is interested in having a look > at it, my patches are available here, but keep in mind that they include > IPv6 patches too : > > ftp://frmug.org/ipv6/ > > > 2. IPv6 support > > Make use of IPv6 features (e.g, flowlabel) > > Also, I feel that when we incorporate IPv6 is a good opportunity > > to incorporate various other networking research outputs (e.g., > > RED, ECN, diff-serv) into the existing platforms. > > Some of this (at least RED and ECN) is in the INRIA IPv6 too. About > the same status as ALTQ regarding my port to -current (barely compile, > untested). If there are any testers out there, they're more than > welcome ! > -- > Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org > {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message