On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:07PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote:
> > He is however "quite sick" of networking, and was originally looking at
> > the VM code as a potential area (he is gaining an interest in
> > parallelization and synchronization).
>
> Something I'd like to see which is unfortunatly network releated is ng_ip,
> ng_tcp, and ng_udp netgraph modules. Since the networking code already
> exists (though it's probably got a number of layering violations in it
> that would need to be sorted out) this would be more of an infrastructure
> project then a networking project. It would have things to measure
> (comparative throughput and latency, for example.) If these modules
> were available, netgraph would become much more intresting as a basis
> for network research (say building distributed simulators). Later
> researchers could add ng_tcp_reno, ng_tcp_vegas, or even ng_tca_daytona
> (the messed up "accelerated" tcp which acks each byte seperatly.)
I've been considereing this as a fun project. The difficult comes at the
interface/IP boundary.. we'd need am ng_route node to multiplex
the packets to the correct output nodes...
:-)
>
> -- Brooks
>
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