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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:58:52 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: dl-engineering@lsi.com
Subject: Excellent Tuxstor project milestone reached
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Howdy folkes,

I just wanted to share some excellent progress news that I was made
aware of today on the Tuxstor project.  As many of you know, the vsvr
implementation from the EEE version of our software is being replaced in
tuxstor because the entire TCP/IP section is being replaced.  Rendell
has been working on this for many weeks now, and in conjuction with
other team members, he has successfully tested the new vsvr design and
implementation.

He sent a ping, using the nfxsh on the SSC in a vsvr context, from the
SSC, through the mgmt-bus to Linux on the TXRX, out an FP port to an IP
address target in the vsvr network context, and received the ICMP ping
back all the way to the SSC.  This utilizes, among other things, the
TCP/IP over mgmt-bus implementation done by Bill Fisher.

One of the many felicitous advantages to this new implementation is
there will no longer be a need to modify the C-library or most of the
open source software that we current have to modify.  This includes
sshd, exim(sendmail), wget and a few others.  In addition, this
implementation involves no modifications to the Linux kernel networking
stack.  So, apart from the mgmt-bus, which is only necessary on the
current cougar hardware, it is very portable and clean.

Congratulations to Rendell and the rest of the team!

Cheers,

a
