Hello Jamal , Is there a time frame to update the draft ?
Many people do not see these lists . Yours & Mr. Haas's work is
only viewable to these thru the ietf draft/rfc/... process .
Rather narrow veiw but necessary at times . Tia , JimL
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote:
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> apologies, I actually have a unrelated daytime job that tends to keep me
> too occupied at times ;->
>
> Netlink2 draft is work in progress. The draft tends to lag reality.
> I believe what you refer to has been fixed. Refer to the slides at:
> http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~rha/netlink2.pdf
>
> > BTW, is netlink2 support planned for linux in the near
> > future?
>
> You will see code from us that is GPL. Consider netlink2 as a distributed
> netlink. netlink is already proven so why reinvent the wheel?
> Essentially you should be able to manager clusters of linux network
> devices (think firewalls, routers etc) with netlink/netlink2.
> There are some mechanisms for distributdness that are missing. These are
> the holes we are going to fill.
>
> Note some of the stuff i am working on at:
> www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/patches/action which fits the whole forces paradigm
> and works quiet well with netlink today and netlink2 next.
> (I stopped updating that web page for sometime now, talk to me if
> interested in the patches and if you would like to help in testing,
> coding, etc)
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