85 lines
1.6 KiB
Plaintext
85 lines
1.6 KiB
Plaintext
$NetBSD: networking,v 1.9 2012/01/15 02:56:17 agc Exp $
|
|
|
|
NetBSD Networking Roadmap
|
|
=========================
|
|
|
|
This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking
|
|
side of the operating system.
|
|
|
|
The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 6.0
|
|
8. SMP-aware Network Packet Filter
|
|
|
|
The following features are expected to be in future releases:
|
|
1. Mobile IPv6
|
|
2. SCTP
|
|
3. network driver polling
|
|
4. ALTQ processing on input
|
|
5. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf
|
|
6. tcp support in libsa
|
|
7. netboot from http
|
|
|
|
We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Some explanations
|
|
=================
|
|
|
|
2. SCTP
|
|
-------
|
|
|
|
Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6.
|
|
|
|
Responsible: TBD
|
|
|
|
|
|
3. network driver polling
|
|
-------------------------
|
|
|
|
Responsible: matt
|
|
|
|
|
|
4. ALTQ processing for input
|
|
----------------------------
|
|
|
|
Responsible: matt
|
|
|
|
|
|
5. multicast DNS / zeroconf
|
|
---------------------------
|
|
|
|
Add support for multicast DNS (name.local)
|
|
|
|
Responsible: tsarna
|
|
|
|
|
|
6. tcp support in libsa
|
|
-----------------------
|
|
|
|
Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa.
|
|
|
|
Responsible: matt
|
|
|
|
|
|
7. http netbooting
|
|
------------------
|
|
|
|
Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a
|
|
read-only root device.
|
|
|
|
Responsible: TBD
|
|
|
|
8. SMP-aware Packet Filter
|
|
--------------------------
|
|
|
|
A new packet filter which is SMP-aware has been written by rmind, as a
|
|
project funded by the NetBSD Foundation. zoltan has updated it for
|
|
IPv6, and various bits contributed by christos, dholland and martin.
|
|
This will be in 6.0
|
|
|
|
Responsible: rmind, zoltan, christos, dholland, martin
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matt Thomas
|
|
Alistair Crooks
|
|
Sat Jan 14 11:44:46 PST 2012
|