While not directly related to VirtualBox, networking is a major part of any virtualization platform, and since VirtualBox is an Open-Source project I decided to share a bit with you, the Open-Source community.
========================= Secretly in the shadows, I have been developing a new Internet Protocol "Five Fields" for quite some time. It is designed to be better than IPv4 and IPv6. And even made a nice presentation about IP-FF and it's features: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XbqWOwv0GASmSjYZimfK64QKQQ-0yK9xQ1_spRhlf8Y/edit?usp=sharing It now consists of 10 parts: (submitted as IETF draft RFCs) 1. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff/ 2. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Addressing Architecture https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-addressing/ 3. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Babysitter (new NAT) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-babysitter/ 4. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: DHCP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-dhcp/ 5. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: DNS extensions https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-dns/ 6. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: ICMP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-icmp/ 7. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Link Address Resolution Algorithm (ARP replacement) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-lara/ 8. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Mobile TCP (Mobile IP replacement) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-mops/ 9. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: TCP.64 extensions https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-tcp64/ 10. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: UDP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-udp/ Basically advanced NAT {+ UDP tunnel) may become a transition method from current IPv4. And if you'd like to co-operate with me, let me know. Happy new year 2016, and new Internet begging ! Happy VirtualBoxing ! -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev