On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Michal Ostrowski wrote:
>
> I would like to suggest that people take a look at the "netgraph"
> architecture for BSD. I think that the kind of issues that people
> have raised in this discussion can be dealt with in a much simpler
> manner in such an architecture.
>
You already know my opinions on this ;->
I think BSD had bigger problems than us (packet type and netfilter should
help as is and something like pppox overlaying is a very good start). But
in general, i agree that sometime in the future we need to do the
rethinking. It helps to do a lot of thinking and prototyping rather than
going with some academic exercise (of which there are about 101 such
architectures in existence; netgraph happens to emulate some)
cheers,
jamal
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