FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: FreeBSD vs. our stack

[Oliver Tappe <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-06-05 at 11:46:20 [+0200], Philippe Houdoin 
<philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oliver asked:
> 
> > Talking about the userland/kernel netstacks, I wonder if it should
> > be possible to run BONE's netstack our own userland stack in
> > parallel (using two separate network cards of course. I tried
> > experimenting with that but whenever I started net_stack_tester, the
> > BONE-stack stopped working.
> > I'm not sure at all, but shouldn't this work, at least in theory?
> 
> It should work, and used to, not just theorically.
> 
> > Or do the two stacks clash at a certain point?
> 
> Nope, they should not.
> I guess something break.
> IIRC, we define the root of our network stack modules "names" in
> hearders/private/net/net_module.h. Except when it build for Haiku, it's
> "obos_network". Do you build the userland stack modules for haiku target?

No, I built it for BONE.

> BTW, maybe we could just define this root always to 
> "haiku_network",whatvever
> the target, until we reach R1?
> 
> Another issue could be in the way we try to open every /dev/net/*/* from the
> ethernet interface module. Several R5/BONE drivers wrongly allow being 
> opened several times...

And so did our RTL8139 driver, which I have just fixed. That was the reason 
the parallel testing of BONE/haiku-userland didn't work for me. Now that the 
RTL8139 driver doesn't open a device multiple times, both stacks can be 
tested. Many thanks for the hint!

cheers,
        Oliver