From owner-freebsd-net Mon Apr 1 18:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3252F37B419; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:40:28 -0800 (PST) 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 <20020402024027.SRPO7801.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:40:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA17620; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:24:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:24:32 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: Lars Eggert , Christophe Prevotaux , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUT Project In-Reply-To: <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 1 Apr 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. The things using bpf nterfaces could be done by hooking in a netgraph module.. in fact the ethernet packet filter could be completely implemented as such.. > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message