[openbeos] Re: Network Update

> Excuse my ignorance on the matter, but a few queries.... 
> How does integration into kernelspace affect the way users have 
> control 
> over
> the networking modules?
> What I mean to say is, if there is a problem, is it still possible to 
> simply 'restart'
> the net_server? And how about stability... is it wise to move things 
> into kernel
> space when they're still untested... even when they are tested?
> As much as we might like to think otherwise, there are plenty of 
> situations 
> when things break, and killing the kernel team is probably not a 
> NiceThing[tm]

As far as I know you will be able to restart the module. BeOS can do 
dynamic kernel loading/unloading, so this isn't a problem, and you 
won't have to restart every five minutes ala' old-Windows.

I think the issue you seem to be describing is when the stack receives 
a malformed packet that it can't handle, and then treads over kernel 
memory that it shouldn't have access too - that will/could be an issue, 
but as far as I know David has used a very stable and secure OpenBSD 
stack as the base for his work,  and he knows what he is doing, so I 
will trust it!

Thanks

Andrew Edward McCall
OpenBeOS Preferences & Applications Team Leader
mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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