networking

Kip Macy kmacy at fsmware.com
Fri Jul 18 17:55:48 PDT 2003


> :Do you envision the structure of networking changing any,
> :other than what you mentioned previously with MP scaling?
> :
> :			-Kip
> 
>     A good deal of the low level network infrastructure (packet I/O)
>     will change just from other work that is being done.  Apart from the
>     planned changes to partition the TCP and UDP stacks, I'm sure the mbuf
>     subsystem will also wind up getting rewritten.

I'm currently doing a lot of work on network storage stuff on FreeBSD for
a small company, so I look forward to reading about and testing your
planned changes.

			-Kip






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