Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:05:16 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, jeker@n-r-g.com Subject: Re: Help needed: ALTQ integration into FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C9A672C.F4A489AB@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203212217430.48394-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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Adrian Penisoara wrote: > > Hi, > > Having the prerequisite agreement of the FreeBSD core team I'm > delighted to announce my intention of putting the basis of a "ALTQ > framework integration into FreeBSD" project. Does this mean the core team has approved the integration of ALTQ into FreeBSD-current? > The current set target is "porting" the sources of the ALTQ project > (ALTQ 3.1 is available for the 4.5-RELEASE branch) to FreeBSD-current. > This is certainly not a easy nor simple task and I surely don't have all > the skills needed right now, so I'm going to need help. I'm looking for > a mentor (or more) with FreeBSD core networking knowledge and, if > possible, with commit privileges to the right spots. If you know such a > person or if you are one please contact me. Myself and a collegue of mine are starting to work on a couple of FreeBSD networking related projects from next month on. ALTQ is one of the things on our plate but I think we would have got to it not before summer. We want to overhaul a couple of things in the *BSD networking stack (IP but not TCP/UDP) which are out of date in these days. Part of that is to address many issues Garret Wollman has identified in an email on -net many moons ago. Some things that will be addressed are for example the routing table (old and fat structure, policy routing), IPIP tunneling abstractions (GRE etc.) and some more things. The plan is to first research and identify all issues with the currect networking stack in FreeBSD (1 month). Then to research and identify possible new structures/framworks and to publish a research paper with our findings and recommendations (1-2 month). From then on discussion and implementation will begin. This work is funded by my company (Internet Business Solutions AG) because we want to use a FreeBSD kernel in our high-performance and special purpose routing device by Winter 2002. My goal is to submit as much code as possible of the non-special stuff into FreeBSD (as I've done in the past with RADIUS for Brian's ppp and some Netgraph stuff and the OLDCARD in -stable last year (I organized funding for Brian, Julian and Warner to work on it)). -- Andre > Also, anybody interested to discuss, contribute or help in any other > way is very welcomed to contact me. > > Reference: > > ALTQ project home > http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html > > Thank you very much, > Adrian Penisoara > Ady (@freebsd.ady.ro) > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Programming in BASIC causes brain damage. | > | (Edsger Wybe Dijkstra) | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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