From owner-freebsd-net Tue Apr 2 0: 4:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from proton.hexanet.fr (proton.hexanet.fr [194.98.140.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB44937B41D; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from hexanet.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proton.hexanet.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g32847d00865; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:04:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 10:04:07 +0200 From: Christophe =?ISO-8859-1?B?UHLpdm90YXV4?= To: "Crist J. Clark" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: spe@selectbourse.net, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: HUT Project Message-Id: <20020402100407.506b5cca.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020401233518.5c47153e.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> <3CA8DAD5.2090409@isi.edu> <20020401173556.D99214@blossom.cjclark.org> Organization: HEXANET Sarl X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) X-NCC-RegID: fr.hexanet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 17:35:56 -0800 "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. I agree with this, so maybe it is a good way for him (the author) to start redoing things the proper way , but I am sure he will need guidance from you (FreeBSD people), I'll aks him if he is ok with this -- =============================================================== Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ Z.A.C Les Charmilles Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 3 Allée Thierry Sabine Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 BP202 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 51686 Reims Cedex 2 FRANCE HEXANET Network Operation Center =============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message