MFC requests for 6.3

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 29 14:20:59 PDT 2007


Brett Glass wrote:
> I would like to request that some useful work on networking be MFCed from
> -CURRENT to -STABLE in time for the release of FreeBSD 6.3. In particular,
> I'd like to see some of the Netgraph nodes which are new or which have seen
> extensive development brought in -- ng_nat and ng_car in particular. Bringing
> in the latest version of ng_nat would allow more flexible in-kernel NAT,
> while ng_car (which doesn't seem to be in 6-STABLE at all) would allow
> burstable traffic shaping -- something that DUMMYNET doesn't have. The
> latest version of mpd wouldn't be fully usable unless these and other
> Netgraph code that was developed for it are there....


I'd like to add geom_multipath to the wishlist :)



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