[Netnice-kernels] Re: Netnice internals

[Scott B. <sco...@ve...>]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Takashi Okumura wrote:

> hi,
> 
> fujita-kun, thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Sho Fujita wrote:
> > 
> > i agree with taka. netnice command is a good starting point. but it
> > seems to use /proc. since netnice for other architectures such as
> > freebsd4.9, netbsd, and openbsd are using /proc, copy
> > netnice/netnice-common/src/* to netnice/linux/src, then modify them.
> > vifctl needs vif_capture.c working, please leave it untill later.
> 
> i would like to add one more comment here, for scott.
> 
> due to several difficulties we have on procfs implementation, we
> are shifting to the NNFS-based API. FreeBSD5/Netnice supports NNFS,
> as you know, and we'll migrate into NNFS on OpenBSD and NetBSD shortly.
> 
> However, its mount point is controversial. FreeBSD/Netnice uses /proc
> for NNFS, but, we will need to mount NNFS of Linux at /nnfs, which might
> compromise the portability of netnice applications. We may need to think
> about OSs which do not support procfs, such as MacOS X and Windows OS, also.
> 

For the Linux netnice command I was going to read /etc/mtab using
getmntent to make sure that nnfs is mounted and get the mount point.
So the actual mount point for nnfs should not matter.

> 
> -- taka
> 
> p.s. fujita-kun. does vifctl use vif_capture.c, or NPF?
> 
> p.p.s. can you suggest/specify a shell program we need to modify for linux?
>      bash? bsh? ksh?

Most Linux systems use bash as the shell.


Scott B