Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 10:04:58 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: julian@freefall.freebsd.org (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Networking framework for BSD Message-ID: <199701042305.PAA21612@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199701022236.OAA09044@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Julian Elischer" at Jan 2, 97 02:36:49 pm
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I have one _big_ concern with this: Currently we have very well known and understood networking code inside the kernel which has been around for years and has matured over that time to become a very reliable backbone. Rewriting this (or replacing it) with new code will effectively put FreeBSD back many years in so far as being sure that it has reliable networking. Two excellent cases which show this are Solaris 2 & Linux (both of which have their own TCP/IP stack as opposed to BSD's) and amusingly the BSD socket interface is planned for Solaris 2.6 for software performance reasons :) So, as long as we're prepared to have an "options TESTINET" (or similar) for the kernel - which would be mutually exclusive with "options INET" - for some years to come, it looks like an interesting idea worth pursuing. Darren
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