Has anyone ponied up to the update of TCP/IP yet?

[Andrew Sporner]

Hi,

I just made contact with Ralf, who had previous been doing this kind
of thing.  I am eager to do this and from the direction the conversation
went, he was on board with this.

Currently they are using FreeBSD as a TCP/IP stack and would like
to continue this based on my discussion.  There are opportunities to
modernize aspects of the stack in this regard.  For my part the first
priority would be to bring over what exists in the 7.0 production (I think
it is the latest) and merge it into what is present on RTEMS.

It may be that there will be more functionality that would initially be
tapped by "user space", but as long as the basic functions are present
and it works, would satisfy the first phase of this.

I don't know how NetBSD and FreeBSD differ on this or even if there
is overlap on the two.  I have seen bizarre USB devices that do a lot
of things (even ethernet cards!).

I don't claim expertise on USB, but from what I do know if it, it is more
or less a "plug and pray" framework whereby devices can be attached
and detached dynamically.

>From the perspective of Networking devices the NetIF structure would
have to be filled with the right functions to do the normal things a network
interface would have to do.  For this I think they are identical, though I
have not checked on this.

I am in contact with Christ Johns and Ralf Corsepius in this regard.

I would be eager connect somehow and map out a strategy whereby we
can make this work out well together.  I am on Skype as 'asporner'.  If I
knew when people would like to communicate,  can turn this on.

Sincere Regards




Andy


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, xu ray <rayx.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> No one has claimed as a mentor for this project yet.
> However, my friend and I are on the way to merge the USB stack from
> NetBSD now. We choose NetBSD because it is more friendly to different
> architectures.
> If you will begin to merge the new BSD TCP/IP. I think it will be a
> good idea to work together because there are lots of common codes
> (esp, the BSD header file and the OS adaptor layer)
>
>
>
> 2009/4/14 Andrew Sporner <asporner at googlemail.com>:
>> I am curious if this "open task" has been claimed.
>>
>> If not I would be eager to take it on.  I have been working in the TCP/IP
>> area for about 10 years now and know the FreeBSD stack fairly well
>> (as well as that kernel fairly well).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>> Andy
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> Ray, Xu
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