Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:35:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUT Project Message-ID: <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA8DAD5.2090409@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:10:29PM -0800 References: <20020401233518.5c47153e.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <3CA8DAD5.2090409@isi.edu>
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:10:29PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
> > I was wondering why the FreeBSD core team would think
> > of including the vrrp daemon and loadd to the distribution or let
> > the author of this commit his source for peer reviewing
> ...
> > Maybe it need to be integrated into current and then backported
> > to stable (has it is already stable so it would be forwardported ?
> > to current and backported to stable ??:))
>
> Disclaimer: I'm not part of the core team (or even a comitter).
>
> I briefly looked at the package, and nothing in there seems to depend on
> kernel mods. Having it be a port should be fine. Aside from that, the
> thing would benefit from some documentation... :-)
You've touched on my problem with it, that it _doesn't_ rely on kernel
modifciations. It does some very hackish things with BPF devices and
clobbering MAC addresses. If someone wants to do this The Right Way,
some of it definately needs to live in the kernel.
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