networking revision 1.11
1 $NetBSD: networking,v 1.11 2016/05/18 09:12:04 ozaki-r Exp $ 2 3 NetBSD Networking Roadmap 4 ========================= 5 6 This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking 7 side of the operating system. 8 9 The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 8.0 10 0. SCTP 11 12 The following features are expected to be in future releases: 13 1. net80211 support [n/ac] 14 2. Mobile IPv6 15 3. network driver polling 16 4. ALTQ processing on input 17 5. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf 18 6. tcp support in libsa 19 7. netboot from http 20 8. MP network stack (Layer 3 and below) 21 9. MP network stack (rest) 22 23 We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 24 25 Some explanations 26 ================= 27 28 0. SCTP 29 ------- 30 31 Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6. 32 33 Responsible: rjs 34 Status: committed, done 35 36 1. net80211 [n/ac] 37 ------------------ 38 39 Resync FreeBSD stack to get support for n, ac, VAP 40 41 Responsible: christos 42 Status: started porting FreeBSD code 43 Comment[christos]: This will add VAP support too, and needs changes to all 44 the specific drivers. 45 46 2. Mobile IPv6 47 -------------- 48 49 Responsible: TBD 50 Status: not started 51 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 52 53 3. network driver polling 54 ------------------------- 55 56 Responsible: matt 57 Status: not started 58 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 59 60 61 4. ALTQ processing for input 62 ---------------------------- 63 64 Responsible: matt 65 Status: not started 66 Comment[christos]: The ALTQ code and interface is very messy and there 67 is a lot of code duplication. People (ozaki-r/knakahara) are working on 68 this as part as MP stack 69 70 71 5. multicast DNS / zeroconf 72 --------------------------- 73 74 Add support for multicast DNS (name.local) 75 76 Responsible: tsarna 77 Status: not started 78 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 79 80 81 6. tcp support in libsa 82 ----------------------- 83 84 Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa. 85 86 Responsible: matt 87 Status: not started 88 Comment[christos]: XXX: Why? What's going to use it? 89 90 91 7. http netbooting 92 ------------------ 93 94 Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a 95 read-only root device. 96 97 Responsible: TBD 98 Status: not started 99 Comment[christos]: Not very interesting 100 101 8. net SMP work (Layer 3 and below) 102 ----------------------------------- 103 104 Make multi-threaded network stack. Targets are Layer 3 (IP forwarding), 105 Layer 2 (ARP, NDP, bridge, vlan and bpf) and some tunnel devices (gif, 106 ipsec and pppoe). 107 108 Responsible: ozaki-r,knakahara 109 Status: in progress 110 111 9. net SMP work (rest) 112 ---------------------- 113 114 Make multi-threaded network stack. Get tasks other than the above targets down. 115 116 Responsible: TBD 117 Status: not started 118 119 Matt Thomas 120 Alistair Crooks 121 Sat Jan 14 11:44:46 PST 2012 122 Christos Zoulas 123 Tue May 17 16:46:54 EDT 2016 124 Ryota Ozaki 125 Wed May 18 18:07:43 JST 2016 126
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