MFC requests for 6.3

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at teledomenet.gr
Tue Oct 30 01:52:14 PDT 2007


On Monday 29 October 2007 00:22:34 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....

Hello Brett,

ng_nat is part of 6-STABLE and maybe Alexander(mav@) would
like to bring in ng_car as well. Don't know the MFC policies
or other possible difficulties. Let him know of your request.

HTH

Nikos


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