Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:24:32 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>, Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUT Project Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204011823180.16786-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org>
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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
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