[openbeosnetteam] Re: [Fwd: New Networking Project...]

Hi guys...

> Waldemar Kornewald <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > the FreeBSD team started a new project to clean up their netstack 
> > and 
> > make it ready for the future. Thought this is of interest for us.
> 
> Have you guys settled down the decision wether or not to port the 
> latest FreeBSD stack?

I'm the one to blame here for not having reported about this project.
Due to my personnal issues (finding a job *now*!), I've abruptly lost 
free time I used to spent on network team.
Even more since last couple of months.

Anyway, we did talk Waldemar and I about this possible road.
In particular, we agreed on a possible port of the FreeBSD 5.x net 
stack, making it an huge stand-alone module.
This big module, in that scenario, will replace the current core, 
protocols and some of the interfaces stack modules.
Yep, that's dropping modular design, mostly.

The pros were better, more stable, up-to-date, easiest to maintain 
stack code. The 5.x net stack branch is known to be thread-aware on 
most parts. Beside a really great and long features list, a way better 
BSD "exotic" network API's support is cool too.

The cons were the code will still be, well, not really easy to 
understand (still many macros and low C *tricks* in the latest code) 
and to evolve from, and that moving to a fully modular design again 
from that point will most probably be very hard, dixit FreeBSD's net 
guys.

But I fear that nor me nor him want or can do it (time issue) was the 
biggest negative point.
We may find more interrest in David's "Marrow" project instead, as it's 
sound more like "BSD stack meet BONE".
Waldemar discussed with him, but since I dunno how it came.

> And if you're positive, any work done in that direction yet?

Nope. Not on my side.
I've a huge personal todo-list for this team :-(
 
- Philippe Houdoin

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