On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:26:21 EST, Alex Pilosov wrote:
> Sometimes in the course of human events it is necessary to break with
> compatibility ;) I believe netgraph is sufficiently advanced and well-made
> system that it should be used as much as possible.
Microsoft might argue the same about Windows.
Someone has to take the counterpoint around here. ;-)
> There's nothing that would prevent OpenBSD people from taking
> netgraph and implementing it. I run OpenBSD, and threw the idea a
> few times on their mailing lists, and response was less than
> enthusiastic...Which lead me to choose FreeBSD for my next networking
> project. :)
We can't _make_ the Linux folks adopt BSD technologies either, but
we continue to jump through hoops for compatability layers in the
BSD variants. I'm just advocating a search for prior-art, and/or
a friendly design conversation with the other projects _before_
integration into FreeBSD.
- Steve
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