> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:30 AM
> To: Li, Qing
> Cc: Luigi Rizzo; FreeBSD Net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: arp rewrite...
>
> Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Li, Qing wrote:
> >> Last time when I sent an email to net@ for comments, I
> >> received only limited feedback.
> >> The New ARP code in my home directory on FreeFall and was
> >> lasted updated on June-8-2007. It was based on then
> CURRENT
> >> (7.0) and was tested to be working fine at
> >> that time. A bit more work would be necessary in locking
> >> though. I asked for code review and folks to play with it.
> >> Again, the feedback was really scant.
> >> The code is accessible at
> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~qingli/newarp-06-08-2007/
> >>
> >> The question I asked then was "should I move forward?"
> >>
> >> I'd be more that happy to resume and be done with it.
> >
> > I think that breaking the arp code from the routing code need to
> > proceed.
> >
> > I see no reason to not have reference counted links from
> the routes to
> > the arp code (for optimisation and compat reasons), but it
> should be
> > self standing.
> >
> > I'll look at what you have..
>
> it looks very good.
>
> (could do with a few more comments :-)
>
> What I'm trying to do in my current project is add limited
> support for multiple routing tables into 6.x or at latest 7.x
>
> I have a 'low impact' version that gives "limited" support.
> //depot/user/julian/routing/src/sys/...
> (userland utility not in p4 yet)
> i.e. you can select from a small number (defined at compile
> time) of tables for ipv4 only.. it will do for my purposes,
> but should have little impact on the API/ABI. in -current the
> requirement for ABI compatibility is not there so I can do
> proper rewrite. Which I think would include a rewrite of the
> arp code. I like what I see in the code you have done..
>
> It's a bit hard reading you code as patches, is it in P4?
>
>
Sorry, the code is not in P4.
I can create a tarball out of all the whole files and
send it to ya if that works?
-- Qing
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >> -- Qing
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luigi Rizzo
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:49 AM
> >>> To: Julian Elischer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Cc: FreeBSD Net
> >>> Subject: Re: arp rewrite...
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >>>> I believe Qing-li (Sp?) did an arp rewrite..
> >>> the story is a bit longer - Andre drafted the initial
> design, which
> >>> i subsequently took over and with a student, Alessandro
> Cerri, (I am
> >>> Cc-ing him) did a first implementation. This was probably
> around 2003.
> >>>
> >>> Then Qing-li (Sp?) took over development of that code -
> last i heard
> >>> of the code was around last summer.
> >>>
> >>> I think our code at least was based on 4.x so it probably did not
> >>> address locking very much (not sure how the routing code
> is locked
> >>> these days, anyways).
> >>>
> >>> Alessandro is actually around again playing with FreeBSD
> so he may
> >>> remember more details (it was his thesis, after all!)
> >>>
> >>> cheers
> >>> luigi
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