Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:22:00 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: julian@whistle.com, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph... Message-ID: <199901300822.AAA06454@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <8811.917683529@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jan 30, 99 09:05:29 am"
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >What did you think of the idea of having each node contain two > >new methods for encoding and decoding ASCII strings? I say methods > >but really they would just understand two new generic message types. > > I don't see the point, quite frankly... The point is that you avoid having to parse ASCII strings for *every* control message. Only ngctl uses these encode/decode messages when it needs to communicate with humans. Otherwise, everything is done in 'native' binary format. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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