Re: [Linux-igd-devel] FW: Linux IGD was ported to NetBSD.

[Nektarios K. P. <npa...@in...>]

Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> On 10/09/06, Nektarios K. Papadopoulos <npa...@in...> =
wrote:
>> I didn't look very thoroughly through the code, but see my comments
>> inline...
>>
>> Juho V=E4h=E4-Herttua wrote:
>>> I read through this and from what I can see it has at least four
>>> patches combined together.
>>>
>>> First of all it disables the iptables command parsing totally in non-
>>> linux systems. Another thing is that it adds checks for
>>> UPNP_HAVE_DEBUG and moves some of the code inside that, apparently
>>> libupnp log level and other logging stuff. (don't know the reason for
>>> this, maybe linux-igd doesn't work on libupnp compiled without
>>> debug?)
>> AFAIK linux-igd is working fine with libupnp compiled without debug.
>> AFAICT the purpose of the patch is just to make linux-igd take
>> advantage/configure the debugging functionalities of the libupnp if
>> available.
>>
>>> Third thing is that it refactors some linux-igd code (mainly
>>> socket code) to linux.c file and adds netbsd.c file that does the
>>> same with some modifications. And last but not least it adds the
>>> ioctl stuff that is used to control netbsd filters.
>>>
>>> Then there's the libupnp patch he clearly couldn't get upstream at
>>> libupnp so he sent it to us, it's a big piece in itself and seems to
>>> concentrate in replacing some functions not found on netbsd.
>> libupnp development is continued at the pupnp project:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pupnp
>> http://www.libupnp.org
>> I'm working on that project but I have zero experience with netbsd.
>> pupnp is really positive about supporting new platforms but we're real=
ly
>> short on resources. BTW, is it ok if I post the patch there?
>=20
> There should be a NetBSD vmware image which can be downloaded and used
> with the free vmware player [http://www.vmware.com/download/player/].
> I checked, but couldn't find any so far.

Thanks for the link. I couldn't find a NetBSD vmware image either.=20
Nevertheless, it will require more than having a usable NetBSD=20
installation to check/fix/verify such a patch.

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