Re: Deprecating old networking protocols

2017-11-15 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:09 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > >> I think it is probably overdue in the DECnet case, however I >> did get a very happy with it for the most part. Anyway it is >> clear that nobody is maintaining it and it

Re: Deprecating old networking protocols

2017-11-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > I think it is probably overdue in the DECnet case, however I > did get a very happy with it for the most part. Anyway it is > clear that nobody is maintaining it and it seems sensible > that it should get removed unless someone with sufficient >

Re: Deprecating old networking protocols

2017-11-14 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On 14/11/17 19:20, Laura Abbott wrote: The kernel has seen an uptick in testing from fuzzers lately. This has been great for the kernel as its exposed a number of bugs. See https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/05/exploiting-linux-kernel-via-packet.html as an example. Part of this

Deprecating old networking protocols

2017-11-14 Thread Laura Abbott
The kernel has seen an uptick in testing from fuzzers lately. This has been great for the kernel as its exposed a number of bugs. See https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/05/exploiting-linux-kernel-via-packet.html as an example. Part of this has also shown what areas of the kernel are