Subject: Re: Am I wasting my time even thinking this way?
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/21/2000 23:07:55
> > So:-
> >
> > * Is this a totally evil thing to do in the first place?
> > * Will we struggle on an ARM7? If we don't have an MMU?
> > * Will we get good performance (who wants a slow router?)
> > * Will we struggle to disentangle the IP stack from the OS?
> >
> Someone ported NetBSD's TCP/IP stack to VxWorks a while back
> http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#pso-tcpip
> so you may be able to leverage off their work, or maybe even
> hire them for the job :) That was pre IPv6.
>
> Another option might be to try interesting one of the consultants
> listed on the NetBSD website in the job.
Algorithmics also ported the 4.4 bsd stack to the MIPS PMON monitor
environment. That might be interesting to you, too.
I haven't actually played with it.