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diff --git a/hurd/translator/pfinet/implementation.mdwn b/hurd/translator/pfinet/implementation.mdwn index 50b5dfc2..3232e0cc 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/pfinet/implementation.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/pfinet/implementation.mdwn @@ -1,13 +1,58 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2000, 2008, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The `pfinet` server is a hacked Linux internet implementation with a glue layer translating between the Hurd [[RPC]]s and the middle layer of the Linux implementation. + + +# Bugs + +## Those Listed on [[Open_Issues]] + +## [[IPv6]] + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-04-03 + + <braunr> youpi: there are indeed historical bugs with small packets and + tcp_nodelay in linux 2.0/2.2 tcp/ip + <youpi> oh + <braunr> http://jl-icase.home.comcast.net/~jl-icase/LinuxTCP2.html + + +# Reimplementation, [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5469]] + +## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-04-03 + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + + <youpi> I was thinking about just using liblwip this afternoon, btw + <braunr> what is it ? + <braunr> hm, why not + <braunr> i would still prefer using code from netbsd + <braunr> especially now with the rump kernel project making it even easier + <youpi> well, whatever is easy to maintain up to date actually + <braunr> netbsd's focus on general portability normally makes it easy to + maintain + <braunr> the author of the rump project was able to make netbsd code run in + browsers :) + <braunr> and he actually showed clients using the networking stack on + windows, remotely (not in the same process) + <braunr> so that's very close to what we want + <youpi> indeed + <youpi> though liblwip is exactly the same portability focus :) + <braunr> apparently, for embedded systems + <youpi> but bsd's code is probably better + <youpi> yes + <braunr> i think so, more general purpose, larger user base + <youpi> I used it for the stubdomains in Xen + <youpi> (it = lwip) + <braunr> ok |