From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 13:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18C937B43B for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020620204009.VNXP11426.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:40:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA32360; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brooks Davis Cc: "David E. Cross" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: projects? In-Reply-To: <20020620103130.B23020@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:07PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote: > > He is however "quite sick" of networking, and was originally looking at > > the VM code as a potential area (he is gaining an interest in > > parallelization and synchronization). > > Something I'd like to see which is unfortunatly network releated is ng_ip, > ng_tcp, and ng_udp netgraph modules. Since the networking code already > exists (though it's probably got a number of layering violations in it > that would need to be sorted out) this would be more of an infrastructure > project then a networking project. It would have things to measure > (comparative throughput and latency, for example.) If these modules > were available, netgraph would become much more intresting as a basis > for network research (say building distributed simulators). Later > researchers could add ng_tcp_reno, ng_tcp_vegas, or even ng_tca_daytona > (the messed up "accelerated" tcp which acks each byte seperatly.) I've been considereing this as a fun project. The difficult comes at the interface/IP boundary.. we'd need am ng_route node to multiplex the packets to the correct output nodes... :-) > > -- Brooks > > -- > Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message