From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 1 17:36: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F6C37B416 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:36:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020402013600.PBEE1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 01:36:00 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g321ZuH50550; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:35:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:35:56 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Lars Eggert Cc: Christophe Prevotaux , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUT Project Message-ID: <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020401233518.5c47153e.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <3CA8DAD5.2090409@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CA8DAD5.2090409@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:10:29PM -0800 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message