Hello Jamal , Is there a time frame to update the draft ? Many people do not see these lists . Yours & Mr. Haas's work is only viewable to these thru the ietf draft/rfc/... process . Rather narrow veiw but necessary at times . Tia , JimL On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote: ...snip... > apologies, I actually have a unrelated daytime job that tends to keep me > too occupied at times ;-> > > Netlink2 draft is work in progress. The draft tends to lag reality. > I believe what you refer to has been fixed. Refer to the slides at: > http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~rha/netlink2.pdf > > > BTW, is netlink2 support planned for linux in the near > > future? > > You will see code from us that is GPL. Consider netlink2 as a distributed > netlink. netlink is already proven so why reinvent the wheel? > Essentially you should be able to manager clusters of linux network > devices (think firewalls, routers etc) with netlink/netlink2. > There are some mechanisms for distributdness that are missing. These are > the holes we are going to fill. > > Note some of the stuff i am working on at: > www.cyberus.ca/~hadi/patches/action which fits the whole forces paradigm > and works quiet well with netlink today and netlink2 next. > (I stopped updating that web page for sometime now, talk to me if > interested in the patches and if you would like to help in testing, > coding, etc) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
