Re: PROPOSAL: making liblinux_net library

[Farid Hajji]

> > > 1). I propose to move all linux code out of pfinet and make separated
> > >  library with linux ip stack. 
> > 
> > This is not a horrible idea, and I once thought of doing the same
> > thing myself.
> 
> What would be *really* nice is a nice library with nice well-defined
> and reasonably stable interfaces, that can be used by all of
> linux-kernel, hurd-pfinet, maybe even bsd-kernels and random oskit
> applications. What Olin Shivers would call a 100%-solution.
Look at netgraph(4) in FreeBSD:

   
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netgraph&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-stable&format=html

It looks like an interesting and probably portable way to achieve what
you're looking for.

> But I'm afraid (without actully having looked deeply into the issues)
> that it would be a big job, both technincally and "politically", i.e.
> getting various kernel developers to start using it.
Sigh...

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