Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:00:08 -0600 From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: support of iso networking Message-ID: <E4300CDD-445D-11D7-A4C1-003065BA9B36@titania.net> In-Reply-To: <200302192239.h1JMdxHS095555@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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So how great a delta exists between NetBSD and FreeBSD? Can't the NetBSD code be used as a starting point? Any written guidelines on how interface at the kernel? Am I just stuck picking through the net* code? BTW - The corporate IS guys run adelphia.com. They don't listen to us. We just work here. On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:32:43 -0600, "Joseph T. Klein" > <jtk@titania.net> said: > >> What is involved? > > A huge amount of work: converting the ancient netiso code to use > modern kernel programming interfaces, figuring out MP/MT locking, > adding the netiso support back to the protocol-independent parts of > the kernel, fixing all the warnings, translating all of the anti-DoS > code from TCP/IP into TP/CLNP.... It's not like we arbitrarily > decided that we didn't like OSI and just threw it out the window. > >> Joseph T. Klein >> Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator >> Adelphia Backbone Team > > Oh, BTW, can you yell at whichever Exchange luser in your company is > responsible for breaking the postmaster and abuse aliases today? (See > <http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=adelphia.com>.) > > -GAWollman > > > -- Joseph T. Klein Senior Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator Adelphia Backbone Team PSTN: +1 414 628 3380 INOC-DBA: 19548*585 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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