Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: black@cypher.net (Ben Black) Cc: nialls@euristix.ie, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIT Exokernel OS Message-ID: <199810061945.MAA21541@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19981005140923.F2924@cypher.net> from Ben Black at "Oct 5, 98 02:09:23 pm"
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Ben Black writes: > i have been playing with their exopc distribution. i think the most > immediately interesting aspect for freebsd is the DPF code. it dynamically > generates native filter code resulting in huge speedups. all multiplexing > of network interfaces is via DPF. would be an interesting addition > and the license is just right. There's a good programming project for someone.. put DPF in the kernel and make all of the networking stacks, ip, tcp, ipfw, etc. use it! -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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