From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 4 11:34: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF3B37B401; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB32143FA3; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h24JY1A6040580; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:34:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Vincent Jardin Cc: Tim Robbins , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of netns From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:25:25 +0100." <200303042025.25227.vjardin@wanadoo.fr> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:34:01 +0100 Message-ID: <40579.1046806441@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200303042025.25227.vjardin@wanadoo.fr>, Vincent Jardin writes: >Why does it need to be removed ? According to me, it would be the same mistake >as the removal of netiso and netccitt. I did not know FreeBSD at this time, >but nowadays, in order to get an OS that supports many stacks, we have to use >NetBSD. > >BSD4.4 was designed in order to support many stacks, FreeBSD 6, 7 ou 9 will >support only IPv4 and IPv6, won't they ? We will import and retain any protocol stack which has enough interested users and committers to keep it alive. netiso and netccitt both fell for both of those criteria: neither users nor committers. netns fails both criteria too. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message