networking revision 1.13
1 $NetBSD: networking,v 1.13 2017/01/13 10:14:58 dholland 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 10. Infiniband 23 24 We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 25 26 Some explanations 27 ================= 28 29 0. SCTP 30 ------- 31 32 Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6. 33 34 Responsible: rjs 35 Status: committed, done 36 37 1. net80211 [n/ac] 38 ------------------ 39 40 Resync FreeBSD stack to get support for n, ac, VAP 41 42 Responsible: christos 43 Status: started porting FreeBSD code 44 Comment[christos]: This will add VAP support too, and needs changes to all 45 the specific drivers. 46 47 2. Mobile IPv6 48 -------------- 49 50 Responsible: rjs 51 Status: compiles, not debugged yet. 52 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 53 54 3. network driver polling 55 ------------------------- 56 57 Responsible: matt 58 Status: not started 59 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 60 61 62 4. ALTQ processing for input 63 ---------------------------- 64 65 Responsible: matt 66 Status: not started 67 Comment[christos]: The ALTQ code and interface is very messy and there 68 is a lot of code duplication. People (ozaki-r/knakahara) are working on 69 this as part as MP stack 70 71 72 5. multicast DNS / zeroconf 73 --------------------------- 74 75 Add support for multicast DNS (name.local) 76 77 Responsible: tsarna 78 Status: not started 79 Comment[christos]: XXX: Fill in the project description and justification. 80 81 82 6. tcp support in libsa 83 ----------------------- 84 85 Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa. 86 87 Responsible: matt 88 Status: not started 89 Comment[christos]: XXX: Why? What's going to use it? 90 91 92 7. http netbooting 93 ------------------ 94 95 Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a 96 read-only root device. 97 98 Responsible: TBD 99 Status: not started 100 Comment[christos]: Not very interesting 101 102 8. net SMP work (Layer 3 and below) 103 ----------------------------------- 104 105 Make multi-threaded network stack. Targets are Layer 3 (IP forwarding), 106 Layer 2 (ARP, NDP, bridge, vlan and bpf) and some tunnel devices (gif, 107 ipsec and pppoe). 108 109 Responsible: ozaki-r,knakahara 110 Status: in progress 111 112 9. net SMP work (rest) 113 ---------------------- 114 115 Make multi-threaded network stack. Get tasks other than the above targets down. 116 117 Responsible: TBD 118 Status: not started 119 120 10. Infiniband 121 -------------- 122 123 We do not really have Infiniband support. We should; since it still 124 hasn't quite died, it probably isn't going to. 125 126 127 Matt Thomas 128 Alistair Crooks 129 Sat Jan 14 11:44:46 PST 2012 130 Christos Zoulas 131 Tue May 17 16:46:54 EDT 2016 132 Ryota Ozaki 133 Wed May 18 18:07:43 JST 2016 134 dholland 135 Fri Jan 13 00:53:46 EST 2017 136
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