From owner-freebsd-net Tue Feb 1 23:18:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3CC3E39; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA77806; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:18:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 23:18:07 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Yonny Cardenas Baron Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Theme for thesis with 4.4BSD (FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Yonny Cardenas Baron wrote: > I am an student of a M.Sc. in Computer Science, I am looking a theme for > my thesis and I would like to work on networking with 4.4BSD (FreeBSD). > > I am not an expert but I have studied Unix for some time now, and I use > FreeBSD too. I would like suggestions to make a contribution to the > project. One thing I'd really like to see is a port of the MIT Exokernel packet filtering (DPF) code to FreeBSD. There's lots of potential for research in this area, and it would be darn useful too :-) I have never looked at the code in depth, so I don't know how tied it is to the other parts of the exokernel, but it's worth at least a look. See http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/ for more.. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message