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Re: TP4 over IP and EON support to be removed in -current/6.0



On Monday 17 November 2008 11:40:36 Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:32:22PM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > To help make the kernel locking simplier/better, a major source of pain
> > will be removed.
> > This is the capability of using TP4 over IP and IP over CLNP or CLNP
> > over IP.  No longer
> > will netinet and netiso be able to directly call each other.
> >
> > I doubt this will significantly inconvenience anyone but here's a head up
> > anyways.
>
> I don't object much to removing EON - EON was meant as an experimental
> network (similar to 6bone) before a proper CLNP infrastructure was
> in place

[snip]

I know of CLNP over IP in production use. It doesn't use NetBSD, but it's out 
there.

Nick


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