Re: Would like to work on "Hurdish TCP/IP stack" gsoc project

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:38:53AM -0400, Da Zheng wrote:

> If I remember correctly, one goal of this project is to port the
> TCP/IP stack from another OS such as BSD because we want to get rid of
> Linux code in Hurd.

Well, we were more thinking about one of the existing userspace TCP/IP
stacks, rather than ripping out code from some other kernel :-) But
otherwise that's right.

> Another goal might be split the whole TCP/IP stack into several
> pieces. For example, one process running IP, one running TCP, etc.

That would be interesting as a followup, yes. But the first and more
urgent task is replacing the ancient Linux code in pfinet with some
modern userspace TCP/IP implementation.

-antrik-