Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > In the FreeBSD May-June 2002 Status Report we have announced a natd > > rewrite to make it's configuration options more powerful and support > > more ip addresses to nat to. > > > > The first functional preview is available here: > > > > http://diehard.n-r-g.com/stuff/freebsd/ > > > > Please check this out and test it with real traffic. We'd appreciate any > > feedback about the syntax and any bugs. It'll get some more style > > treatment before declaring it for full public consumption. > > > > Next in row is the tcphostcache in a couple of days. After that the new > > routing table is coming. > > Andre -- > > This work is very exciting. For those of us tracking the SMPng locking of > the IP stack, I'm particular interested in making sure that the new > implementations are locked down using SMPng primitives, and their > potential impact on removing Giant from sections of the stack. I know > that the routing code is one area where we're currently deficient...
The new routing code will untangle the pointer mess in the current stack by a great deal and as such make it far more SMP friendly as it currently is. Unfortunatly I don't know if we have enough time to put everything into 5.0R. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
