Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:34:01 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of netns Message-ID: <40579.1046806441@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2003 20:25:25 %2B0100." <200303042025.25227.vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
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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
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