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Network Stack Cloning Updates on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the multi-stack-joy dept.

Dan writes "Network stack cloning patches on FreeBSD allow for multiple fully independent network stacks to simultaneously coexist in a single FreeBSD kernel. Marko Zec has prepared a latest snapshot of the patches (against 4.8-RELEASE). The latest snapshot includes (a) internal restructuring - - struct vimage is now separated in resource-specific containers, and (b) Kernel message buffers - each vimage / vprocg now has a private kernel message buffer instance. Julian Elischer gave a talk on this subject at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (FreeNIX track) in San Antonio, TX, June 2003. Marko's slides were presented at BSDCon Europe 2002 in Amsterdam."

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  1. *BSD Is Dead & Firstus Postus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. You can not play games on it.
    2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
    3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
    4. There is no support available for it.
    5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
    6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
    7. You have to compile everything and know C.
    8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
    9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
    10.It is dying.

  2. Thats it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hmm talking dirty whenever you *compose* a statement about BSD, doesn't do linux any good.

    Besides that i have the feeling that was those
    marketrolls (IBM, HP and the like) who enforced pressure on linux project between 2.2 and 2.4
    and some "wrong" path was taken, and now
    SCO has some pretty good cards to play.......

    I'm telling you trollies....
    You buyed a share....
    It didnt pay off.....
    Sell it you morons!!!

    As a matter of fact, i think you will be the same exact
    trolls that will be bitching about the rest of the *BSDs
    or any other project on earth (including Linux if it will
    ever make it again),
    when FreeBSD becomes the standard modern Unix
    Desktop and server platform.

    I dont think your mental problems are strictly IT related anyway.....

  3. Hey, everybody, the main BSD spammer is Kevin! by andrewski · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    His name is Kevin, he used to work for BSDI (or WindRiver) and he is a theif and a liar. He steals equipment from his job, and pathetically attempts to eBay it. I'm not going to tell you all his last name, but with enough work you'll be able to figure out who he is and spam the shit out of him.

    To his former employers: Please go ahead and press charges against him, so he'll have to taste meaty man-cocks and get pounded in the ass until he bleeds daemons. ButtStingingDeath!

  4. bad FreeBSD difficulties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Guys, I really don't want to start a holy war here, but come on, what is the deal with you FreeBSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a FreeBSD box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this FreeBSD box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BSD machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a FreeBSD box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the BSD machine's faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD is a "superior" machine.

    FreeBSD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a FreeBSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.