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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks? |
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:36:04 +0200 |
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:18:32PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >>>>> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:
> >>>>> Ivan Shmakov, le Wed 28 Jul 2010 19:13:44 +0700, a écrit :
>
> >>> - PPPoE/routing/NAT/packet filtering.
>
> >> I'd much appreciate IPv6 support, and there will be virtually no
> >> need for NAT for me then.
>
> > AIUI, IPv6 is already supported.
>
> Indeed. Somehow, I've failed to notice that.
>
> >> • message passing on top of Linux:
>
> >> – with a user-space daemon;
>
> > Zheng Da's DDE work, yes.
>
> As per [1], it's quite the contrary: running Linux device
> drivers in user-space with Mach as the host kernel, while I'm
> suggesting running Linux as the host, and Mach in user-space.
Ah. That depends on where you interpret "on top of" :)
> Somehow, I think that the latter would be a bit easier to
> achieve.
It's not so clear to me. Yes, given the amount of work a glue code represents
it's probably easier. But DDE already does a lot of it, and antrik has been
testing Zheng Da's network encapsulation for a long time now without problem
except not being able to open the device from two pfinets.
Samuel
Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?, Svante Signell, 2010/07/13