networking revision 1.9 
1$NetBSD: networking,v 1.9 2012/01/15 02:56:17 agc Exp $
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3NetBSD Networking Roadmap
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5
6This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking
7side of the operating system.
8
9The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 6.0
108. SMP-aware Network Packet Filter
11
12The following features are expected to be in future releases:
131. Mobile IPv6
142. SCTP
153. network driver polling
164. ALTQ processing on input
175. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf
186. tcp support in libsa
197. netboot from http
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21We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up.
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24Some explanations
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26
272. SCTP
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29
30Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6.
31
32Responsible: TBD
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353. network driver polling
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37
38Responsible: matt
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414. ALTQ processing for input
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43
44Responsible: matt
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475. multicast DNS / zeroconf
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49
50Add support for multicast DNS (name.local)
51
52Responsible: tsarna
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556. tcp support in libsa
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57
58Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa.
59
60Responsible: matt
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637. http netbooting
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65
66Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a
67read-only root device.
68
69Responsible: TBD
70
718. SMP-aware Packet Filter
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73
74A new packet filter which is SMP-aware has been written by rmind, as a
75project funded by the NetBSD Foundation.  zoltan has updated it for
76IPv6, and various bits contributed by christos, dholland and martin. 
77This will be in 6.0
78
79Responsible: rmind, zoltan, christos, dholland, martin
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81
82Matt Thomas
83Alistair Crooks
84Sat Jan 14 11:44:46 PST 2012
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