networking revision 1.6
1 $NetBSD: networking,v 1.6 2009/01/26 05:09:25 agc 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 6.0 10 11 1. Mobile IPv6 12 2. SCTP 13 3. network driver polling 14 4. ALTQ processing on input 15 5. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf 16 6. tcp support in libsa 17 7. netboot from http 18 19 The timescales for 6.0 are not known at the present time, but we would 20 expect to branch 6.0 late in 2009, with a view to a 6.0 release in 21 early 2010. 22 23 We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 24 25 26 Some explanations 27 ================= 28 29 2. SCTP 30 ------- 31 32 Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6. 33 34 3. network driver polling 35 ------------------------- 36 37 Responsible: matt 38 39 4. ALTQ processing for input 40 ---------------------------- 41 42 Responsible: matt 43 44 5. multicast DNS / zeroconf 45 --------------------------- 46 47 Add support for multicast DNS (name.local) 48 49 Responsible: ??? 50 51 6. tcp support in libsa 52 ----------------------- 53 54 Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa. 55 56 Responsible: matt 57 58 7. http netbooting 59 ------------------ 60 61 Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a 62 read-only root device. 63 64 Responsible: ??? 65 66 Matt Thomas 67 Alistair Crooks 68 Sun 25 Jan 2009 21:06:42 PST 69
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