Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:40:41 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Netdump for review and testing -- preliminary version Message-ID: <20101010184041.GA10473@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010090121310.1232@fledge.watson.org> References: <AANLkTikA5OUYD1A9pqCqVEZ5qk%2BVECq8x-fnRXnpp0KE@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikau6omhWrXVM13zonFEPCxXM%2B8EqJauovDu0OU@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010090121310.1232@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:15:39AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > Network dumps would be a great addition to the FreeBSD debugging suite! > [...] It seems that at EuroBSDCon there was a discussion of Contiki[1] and the uIPv6 stack[2] that it contains, and I think something like this could be a great future enhancement for netdump and similar consumers. Ideally I'd like to see us get to having a clean, simple API for transmitting and receiving packets and a basic stack that could be shared by netdump, as well as a network-enabled ddb, gdb backend, and perhaps console. Using the uIPv6 stack for this would get us v6 support (as the name suggests), as well as a supported / maintained stack vs. what is in netdump now. It's also BSD-licensed. This could be a good future project, although I think the current netdump implementation is worth bringing in soon (taking into account the good feedback received to date, of course). [1] http://www.sics.se/contiki/about-contiki.html [2] http://www.sics.se/contiki/contiki-6lowpan-uipv6-faq.html - Ed
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