Re: DragonFly-1.0 RELEASED!

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12.07.2004, at 22:10, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :That's a great news !
> :
> :What is the OpenBSD packet filter and ALTQ status ? I saw on 
> DragonFly www that
> :someone is working on it. Is it ready to use in Release 1.0 ?
> :
> :Regards,
> :
> :F.Julien
>     There have been discussions about how best to consolidate the 
> packet
>     filters.  I think there is a general trend towards the OpenBSD 
> filter
>     but it's still an open item.  There's nothing new in 1.0 but I 
> expect
>     the issue will be resolved in the next few months.

concerning pf:
I talked to Max Laier, but unfortuately he doesn't have any time at the 
moment to port his work to DragonFly. I looked at his changes to the 
original OpenBSD stuff and it doesn't see *that* big. mostly locking 
and zone allocation. although I don't have any experience with these 
things I will try to have a grip on it. I think we don't need as much 
locking as FreeBSD needs when we decide from the beginning to have a 
multithreaded packet filer (as tcp is doing already).

cheers
  simon

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