[openbeosnetteam] Re: Me as well...
- From: "David Reid" <dreid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:09:02 -0000
> Quoth "David Reid":
> >>
<snip>
> >>
> >> >Would be Nice To Haves
> >> >
> >> >- IPv6
> >>
> >> I'm definitely interested in this, as well as a few other IP specs such
as
> >> bridging and tunneling using a few different methods(especially
IPSec!).
> >> I think BeOS already did NAT?
> >
> >Yes, but I think we need to look at that. It would be cool to add
> >hooks/support for pf as well...
>
> Definitely some form of packet filtering. Is there a tcpdump for BeOS
currently?
BONE had tcpdump. I think if we're aiming for a list of utilities we should
have, then I'd start with
- netstat
- ifconfig
- tcpdump
- ping(6)
- telnet(6)
- ssh (yes client as default)
- nslookup (deprecated now in BIND)
- dig
- whois
- host
- hostname
- tracert
- route
- arp
- finger
It'd also be nice to offer a range of daemons, via inetd, though with them
all switched off by default I suspect
- inetd
- sshd
- telnetd
- ftpd
- sendmail/postfix/some other mail app
- dhcpd
- named
I don't think we even want to think about the r_ daemons (rlogin, rsh and so
on)
Perhaps we should also say we'll do ppp so we'd need
-ppp
-pppctl
Anyone else intimidated by this list? Of course for most of these we get
the network layer correct they can just be built with slight mods to allow
for beos's differences in other areas :)
> >> Now, I don't have a lot of experience with deep OS stuff, but wouldn't
it
> >be
> >> possible to have a set of 'emulation' libraries or something, which
could
> >be
> >> written on top of our OpenBeOS library in order to provide binary
> >compatibility,
> >> but still let us advance R1 in small ways?
> >
> >I guess so. I wouldn't be interested in writing them, but no doubt some
> >other people in need of self flagellation will be.
>
> Fair enough. I suspect we'll get leaned on from the rest of the OpenBeOS
> team to have binary compatibility, which is really the only reason I say
it. :P
I think we should aim for a kick ass network kit and then pander for
backwards compatibility as a second priority :)
david
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