Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:36:50 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC requests for 6.3 Message-ID: <200710301036.50789.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200710282222.QAA01991@lariat.net> References: <200710282222.QAA01991@lariat.net>
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On Monday 29 October 2007 00:22:34 Brett Glass wrote: > I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed > from -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. In > particular, I'd like to see some of the Netgraph nodes which are new or > which have seen extensive development brought in -- ng_nat and ng_car in > particular. Bringing in the latest version of ng_nat would allow more > flexible in-kernel NAT, while ng_car (which doesn't seem to be in > 6-STABLE at all) would allow burstable traffic shaping -- something that > DUMMYNET doesn't have. The latest version of mpd wouldn't be fully > usable unless these and other Netgraph code that was developed for it > are there.... Hello Brett, ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE and maybe Alexander(mav@) would like to bring in ng_car as well. Don't know the MFC policies or other possible difficulties. Let him know of your request. HTH Nikos
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