On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:40:27PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > Yep, that seems to be exactly what I need. I don't suppose there are > > any plans to implement something similar in FreeBSD anytime soon? > > Considering I'm so close to getting this to work it's frustrating to > > think that I would need to migrate to OpenBSD to have this > > functionality and uproot everything else this server already does > > (mail, dns, web, etc). > > Considering if_enc.c from OpenBSD's HEAD (see URLs at the bottom), it > does not seem to be difficult to port to FreeBSD, but since I'm not a > kernel guru at all, there may be some issues I don't even suspect.o > > I'm concious that making it FreeBSD's SMP compliant should require a > little amount of work, but it could be maked with the IFF_NEEDSGIANT > flag for a first step. Are there any reason why we would not need nor > want this in FreeBSD ?
I think the KAME people had some sort of objection to one of it's features, but as long as it's not running by default I can't see how it matters. I don't think we should allow new drivers with IFF_NEEDSGIANT into the tree. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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