[ros-kernel] Network status update

art yerkes ayerkes at speakeasy.net
Wed Jun 9 17:19:32 CEST 2004


I did a big commit today of a lot of code I have been working on in the
past months.  Since the code is very new, there are probably problems
that I've missed or things I forgot to check.  mifritcher has already
pointed out that pcntn5m running with the current tcpip.sys winds up in
some new unimplemented ndis functions that have never been reached
before.  (I am currently using an ne2000 for testing)

The main reason why I'm fairly cavalier about checking in this code is
that the newest thing checked in is about three weeks old, and that 
since networking had its share of problems before, this checkin
represents a clear improvement in my opinion.

The other reason for checking in here is that others have wanted to help
but keeping a second patched tree was causing problems.  It will be easier
to bring more reactos developers in here for the next phase of this work
with networking in the main tree.

I will fix breakage as soon as I see it or hear about it.  I'll be testing
with the pcnet and 3com drivers tonight and tomorrow hopefully and fixing
bugs.

The next task we need to do is to finish our msafd and afd
implementations.  afd is difficult and I'll be bugging everybody I can
who's knowledgable about working in the kernel.  msafd just needs to
correctly follow the interface we make for afd.

If anyone has wanted to see networking get going quicker, this is a
very good place to bring some new people on.
-- 
Hey, Adam Smith, keep your invisible hands to yourself!


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