From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 10 22:07:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0314C54A for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from barracuda.ixsystems.com (mail.ixsystems.com [69.198.165.135]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.ixsystems.com", Issuer "Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B29DE8F0 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:07:28 +0000 (UTC) X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1426025230-08ca043650089a0002-P5m3U7 Received: from [192.168.18.10] (221x253x176x170.ap221.ftth.ucom.ne.jp [221.253.176.170]) by barracuda.ixsystems.com with ESMTP id CEZ0x8OkqcVrRnD6 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:07:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: kris@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-AUTH-User: kris@pcbsd.org X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 221.253.176.170 Message-ID: <54FF6B0D.5050708@pcbsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:07:09 -0400 From: Kris Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2015: FreeBSD Port of Network manager References: <54FA08C7.6090304@freebsd.org> <12575122.FXQfMv0qnV@ralph.baldwin.cx> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: GSoC 2015: FreeBSD Port of Network manager In-Reply-To: <12575122.FXQfMv0qnV@ralph.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Connect: 221x253x176x170.ap221.ftth.ucom.ne.jp[221.253.176.170] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1426025231 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 X-Barracuda-URL: https://10.2.0.41:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at ixsystems.com X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=8.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.16486 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:47:15 +0000 Cc: 'Gavin Atkinson' , Allan Jude X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:07:29 -0000 On 03/09/2015 12:16, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, March 06, 2015 03:06:31 PM Allan Jude wrote: >> On 2015-03-06 15:00, Gokul Krishna wrote: >>> Hi >>> I am currently studying 2nd year of masters in embedded systems at KTH >>> Royal institute of technology , sweden. >>> I have around 2 and half years of experience in embedded linux and device >>> drivers projects. >>> I have reasonably good working and debugging knowledge of Char/Block/ >>> Network drivers in Linux and their implementation. Also Im familiar about >>> working knowledge of Realtek 8139 network device driver in Linux. >>> So I am interested to work in this project "FreeBSD porting of Network >>> manager". >>> Kindly explain me about the expected deliverables, i need to contribute >>> for this project , So I will start working for project plan with list of >>> Milestone task and design decisions for mid term deliverables and final >>> deliverables. >>> Kindly reply me. >>> thanks and regards >>> gokul >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> There is a network manager in PCBSD that works on FreeBSD, already in >> the ports tree. You might want to make sure there is some advantage to >> network manager before doing the work. >> >> the PCBSD Network Manager is part of: sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt4 >> >> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt4 > Note that if this tool is sufficient, we really shouldn't have this idea on > the GSoC ideas list. > Yea, we've had the tool in ports for a while now. Also, the -qt4 version was replaced with -qt5, just a FYI: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pcbsd-utils-qt5 The included network manager supports setting up IPv4/IPv6 on devices, wifi-scanning / setup, lagg support, and a handy-tray app to make connecting super-easy. We had looked at porting over NetworkManager years ago, but it was so Linux-centric it made more sense for us to develop something for FreeBSD specifically. -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software iXsystems