Networking session

For now just a braindump of ideas. Should add more details. Feel free to do so yourself. Remember, we only have about 3 half days (and perhaps an evening or two).

We can pick one possibly two topics depending on number of people:

1. sketch up more details of the new link-layer and start to prototype
2. look in more details at Jeff's previous mbuf branches jeff_mbuf and jeff_mbuf2, as well as the 201205 notes and start a prototype
3. related to all this, look at factoring out code from network drivers into a common library
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Possibly more ideas:

1. if it will otherwise happen, plot the network stack rmlocks and prototype
2. finish stats gathering, libnetstat, and related (should be a quick discussion and a 1-2 person project to finish)
3. Mirage/kFreeBSD
4. implement PFIL_TYPE_IFNET for pfil(9) and rebase ng_ether(4) on the top of this.
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