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1.1     ! jmmv        1: [[!template id=project
        !             2: 
        !             3: title="Virtual network stacks"
        !             4: 
        !             5: contact="""
        !             6: [tech-kern](mailto:tech-kern@NetBSD.org),
        !             7: [tech-net](mailto:tech-net@NetBSD.org),
        !             8: [board](mailto:board@NetBSD.org),
        !             9: [core](mailto:core@NetBSD.org)
        !            10: """
        !            11: 
        !            12: category="networking"
        !            13: difficulty="hard"
        !            14: funded="The NetBSD Foundation"
        !            15: 
        !            16: description="""
        !            17: This project proposal is a subtask of [[smp_networking]] and is elegible
        !            18: for funding independently.
        !            19: 
        !            20: The goal of this project is to implement full virtual network stacks.  A
        !            21: virtual network stack collects all the global data for an instance of a
        !            22: network stack (excluding `AF_LOCAL`).  This includes routing table, data
        !            23: for multiple domains and their protocols, and the mutexes needed for
        !            24: regulating access to it all.  Instead, a *brane* is an instance of a
        !            25: networking stack.
        !            26: 
        !            27: An interface belongs to a *brane*, as do processes.  This can be considered
        !            28: a `chroot(2)` for networking, e.g. `chbrane(2)`.
        !            29: """
        !            30: ]]
        !            31: 
        !            32: [[!tag smp_networking]]