From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <018001c33c4b$1ba33380$c901a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno & plan9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:57:43 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: de71f540-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 of course it does authentication. i'm not sure of the utility of "security is easy if you have none" approach. we chose not to try and look like 9P2000 because the inferno security model is different and serves us well. there is no auth machine in the picture. and running around changing boot roms because we are fixing something that isn't broken is hard to justify to our users. it's a good thing importing my play station namespace to a plan9 machine where i can run all sorts of debugging tools that i don't want to rewrite in limbo. froggies are 4 processor ixp1200 network appliances. see BLTJ 6(2), 6-17 (2002) Wiley InterScience. "Starburst: Building Next-Generation Internet Devices" i'll put the styxsrv src on my web site sometime v.soon. the implementation is somewhat novel. brucee ----- Original Message ----- From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 4:37 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno & plan9 ... > brucee: > > i hacked srvold9p into a srvstyx so that we could import froggies > > (which run research inferno) into the plan9 namespace. > > i'll try and find the src if this is what you want. > > did it do the inferno auth protocol? > > and... what are froggies?