Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:50:37PM -0600, Joshua Stratton wrote: > I'd still like some feedback from the Hurd developers about what they > would like to see in the TCP/IP rewrite. A bit of patience, please :-) > From what I envision, it would be modular design of two or more > translators (

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-27 Thread Joshua Stratton
I'd still like some feedback from the Hurd developers about what they would like to see in the TCP/IP rewrite. From what I envision, it would be modular design of two or more translators (perhaps one for each protocol). Although it's quite a different approach, I really like the idea of client-bas

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-27 Thread Joshua Stratton
I've rewritten my proposal based on some feedback from the mailing list. Once again, more about the proposal and myself can be found off Google's website at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jstratto/soc_hurd/ I really liked the paper Pierre referenced and think a modular approach with client-based memory

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-26 Thread Joshua Stratton
> > > As far as security and efficiency is concerned, I highly recommend > reading 'Network Subsystems Reloaded: A High-Performance, Defensible > Network Subsystem'[1]. > > 1. > http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~sarat/usenix-net-2004.ps > > Having a capabil

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-26 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Joshua Stratton dies 25/03/2008 hora 07:27: > http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jstratto/soc_hurd/ You may under-estimate the difficulty of actually implementing the various layers. But you seem to have done it before, and it's true that reimplementing is far easier. But it seems your schedule lack

tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-26 Thread Joshua Stratton
Hello, I recently entered a proposal for the TCP/IP rewrite for Google's Summer of Code. I would like to invite anyone who has access as a mentor to check it out. For those of you who don't, I put the details of the proposal, my planned schedule, my experience, and my interests on an external we