REMINDER: Re: HEADS UP: network stack and socket hackery over the next few weeks

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-Mar-29 10:11:57 +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>> As a reminder, April 1 is now three days away.  On April 1, I will be
>> committed an extensive set of socket and netinet changes which will likely
>> render the network stack broken.
>
> Good choice of date :-).  Maybe you could borrow PHK's axe and have some 
> fun: Remove the IPv4 stack to encourage the use of IPv6 :-).
>
> Seriously, thanks for all your efforts in improving FreeBSD.

Yeah, it's actually quite funny.  I picked the date based on a number of weeks 
from when things appeared to start stabilizing, and giving a long enough time 
to appeal for maintainers.  Only after I posted did I realize what a good 
choice it was -- when I mentioned to someone I was breaking TCP on April 1. 
:-)

Robert N M Watson