On 2009-04-20 at 19:56:15, you wrote: >We are working on changes to do this trick in a variety of our deamons >and in our kernel; precognition means that we can identify an upcoming >period when such packets will come in -- packets which would >defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an attack above >the socket layer. since we can precognitively pre-identify the risk, >we can drop them right on the ethernet card and avoid even having them >dma into memory! > >Well, we have only parts of this working in the tree. A few pieces >are still missing, but Austin is trying a prototype of the algoritms >and heuristics in his shipping operation.
If you can get precognition working in the network stack, can the same technology be applied to other areas? I'm thinking perhaps you could adapt the precognition algorithm to generating commits to the CVS tree. Give it a very fast machine to run on, and you could accomplish the next 10 full years of OpenBSD development in time for the next release! Once precognition is fully working, i have a humble suggestion that you work on a time travel module next. I don't know if that can be done purely in software though... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
