FreeBSD TCP/IP Tasks I (a contributor) could work on?

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Tue Aug 11 20:34:44 UTC 2020


On 8/10/2020 11:58 PM, Neel Chauhan wrote:
> Hi freebsd-net@,
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
>
> In case you were wondering, I am responsible for patches like r357092 
> (IPFW/libalias RFC6598, original idea), r363403 and r362900 (related 
> to routing KPI, suggested by melifaro@).
>
> However, despite my current accepted code, I am dry of ideas. At the 
> same time, I'd love to work with kernel code, especially the network 
> code.
>
> Sadly, the Wiki is dreadfully out-of-date.
>
> Is there any things I could work on in the FreeBSD networking stack? 
> Any things you committers need help with? 

Did anything ever become of this? If it could be made to work as 
advertised, it seems like it would be a worthy successor to legacy 
counterparts such as altq & dummynet. If memory serves, those become 
tight bottlenecks when put to use.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2018Projects/PSPAT

-Matthew



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