From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 22:06:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA11035 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 22:06:32 -0800 Received: from chrome.jdl.com (chrome.onramp.net [199.1.166.202]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA11029 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 22:06:25 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chrome.jdl.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA10808; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 00:04:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199512050604.AAA10808@chrome.jdl.com> X-Authentication-Warning: chrome.jdl.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Michael Smith , rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop), peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Dec 1995 17:49:57 PST." <8673.818128197@time.cdrom.com> Clarity-Index: way outta touch Threat-Level: way outta touch Software-Engineering-Dead-Seriousness: There's no excuse for unreadable code. Net-thought: If you meet the Buddha on the net, put him in your Kill file. Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:04:25 -0600 From: Jon Loeliger Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Apparently, "Jordan K. Hubbard" scribbled: > > It would appear that we actually have low-density and high-density cards; > > can we support both, or do we need seperate boot-decks? > > Folks, folks, this is clearly a case where an amalgam of both old and > new technologies is required. Consider the challenges solved by TCP. > Lots of packets arriving potentially out of sequence (or not at all) > reassembled into a coherent data stream. Much like the idea of > multiple cards arriving one at a time into a hopper, yes? Sounds suspiciously like the "I can run TCP over carpet static" argument. > So all we need is to establish sequence numbers for cards, and maybe a > time to live field? Is it too late to get this into IPv6? Depends. Can we get it into columns 72-80? jdl