[HECnet] Bridge

[Rob Jarratt]

It would be interesting to know more about what bugs and issues you have fixed and what other changes you have included. Is there a list? Do you publish the code on GitHub?

Regards

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf
> Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: 09 February 2020 12:53
> To: hecnet <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
> Subject: [HECnet] Bridge
> 
> I just wanted to alert people that I rewrote parts of the bridge code recently.
> 
> The code was very old, and it started to have problems on some platforms
> because of the very ancient way it made use of the pcap library. So I finally bit
> the bullet and rewrote it to make use of the pcap library it is supposed to be
> used these days. This not only removed some bugs/issues, but it also allowed
> me to remove some conditional code for different OSes.
> 
> In addition I also introduced some other changes that others have contributed,
> making it hopefully a little nicer to use.
> 
> The bridge tarball can be found on:
> http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet
> 
> or
> 
> http://psilo.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet
> 
>    Johnny
> 
> --
> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                    ||  on a psychedelic trip
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