Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:12:31 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how about including dummynet in 2.2.7 ? Message-ID: <19980703111231.42617@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <7114.899454518@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 01:28:38AM -0700 References: <199807030528.HAA13533@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <7114.899454518@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 01:28:38AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > So how about including it in the 2.2.7 distribution ? The patches > > I have apply cleanly to 2.2.6, and i can make them work on stable > > with relative ease. > > New features are generally discouraged in the -stable branch, but of > course all things are also relative. The biggest reason that new > features are discouraged is because they tend to perturb the system in > ways that make it very hard to ascertain whether it's still "stable" > anymore. If your proposed changes have a very low impact on the rest > of the networking subsystem, low enough that you feel very confident > about the stability of the resulting system, let's talk some more > about it. The only problem I can see with Luigi's changes is I believe that they will screw the ipfw interface again (right, Luigi?) We've screwed the ipfw interface before, though... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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