On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Balazs Scheidler wrote: > It is a strange idea I know, but I'd be interested in what the opinion of > the core netfilter developers is on porting the whole netfilter subsystem to > Solaris?
You must have plenty of time. I envy you! :-) > Apart from the technical issues, would there be any problems? Does the GPL > allow this kind of usage? (it would be implemented as a module) If the module is GPLed, then I don't see problems here but I'm not a layer. But how do you imagine the porting so that the maintenance would not become a nightmare? > Technically, the most difficult tasks are to remove the dependency on Linux > like sk_buff (Solaris has a chain of mblk_t's), locking (it's more or less > done using macros), routing differences and I suppose many things I don't > see right now. Challenging. But wouldn't it be more straightforward to run Linux on that SPARC machine? And there are still plenty to do on 32/64bit issues in netfilter... Regards, Jozsef - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
