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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:53:18 -0500
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From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>,
	Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
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Subject: Re: arp rewrite...
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At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:48:53 -0800,
luigi wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > I believe Qing-li (Sp?) did an arp rewrite..
> 
> the story is a bit longer - Andre drafted the initial design,
> which i subsequently took over and with a student, Alessandro Cerri,
> (I am Cc-ing him) did a first implementation. This was probably
> around 2003.
> 
> Then Qing-li (Sp?) took over development of that code - last i heard
> of the code was around last summer.
> 
> I think our code at least was based on 4.x so it probably did not
> address locking very much (not sure how the routing code is locked
> these days, anyways).
> 
> Alessandro is actually around again playing with FreeBSD so he may
> remember more details (it was his thesis, after all!)
> 

Any pointeres to code that works or did work?  It would be good to
move this all forwards.

Best,
George