Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:41:13 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?) Message-ID: <20081220224016.S10302@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <448wqazfyf.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <1229788709.1583.16.camel@MGW_1> <44iqpezlb8.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20081220205414.A10042@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <448wqazfyf.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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>>> I very much doubt that marketing issues were a significant issue. >>> Off-the-shelf OS networking has always fallen short of supporting >> >> it wasn't made for that. > > It can be. I've written portable IP stacks intended for exactly this Of course it can. i just write that FreeBSD network stack WASN'T MADE for that. not if it can or not. >> routing ASIC's and put them there! > > Mostly, yes. But the system still has to be network manageable. That > requires that it send and receive packets. Doing so requires using the > same routing information that the forwarding engines are using to > forward packets in the same address space. The kernel *does* still need > to know routes to any of its destinations. but kernel doesn't forward much packets.
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