arp rewrite...

[Julian Elischer]

Gergely CZUCZY wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:30:06AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> 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 don't know if you know about it or not, but there's this Network Stack
> Virtualization project going on. Maybe there are some intersections
> with your ideas. It would be good to check this out first:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkVirtualization
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2007-07-2007-10.html#Network-Stack-Virtualization

I'm not sure I see a lot of overlap.... but it is interesting..

what I want to see in the FreeBSD networking next year is 
multiple virtual stacks (vimage) each of which is capable
of policy routing (multiple tables with selection mechanism).
That would include rewriting parts of the routing framework..


> 
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>>>    -- Qing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Luigi Rizzo
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:49 AM
>>>>> To: Julian Elischer; ales.cerri at tiscali.it
>>>>> 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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> Sincerely,
> 
> Gergely Czuczy
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