On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 5:37 PM Erlon Silva <er...@vnstecnologia.net.br> wrote:
> Hi Olivier! > I'm a big admirer of your work with BSDRP, a great alternative to already > known solutions. > I have a network device known as ServerU, which is approved and > recommended for FreeBSD due to netmap. > This way, the box's performance can be increased by up to 13x (according > to them). > Hi, netmap is just a framework, and indeed BSDRP as FreeBSD based supports netmap… but you need softwares that uses this framework now. And with BSDRP, there is pkt-gen and nmreplay (a packet generator and replay) that are using netmap. But there are no "forwarding|routing" softwares that are using netmap on BSDRP. There is a very recent Cisco VPP port that should soon support netmap and dpdk on FreeBSD (so BSDRP), but is not available today. > I realized that BSDRP is a FreeBSD image and that it also has netmap. > I would like to ask a simple question: when installing BSDRP on ServerU, > can I use netmap natively on ServerU? I need to resolve this doubt, as I > will use it for BGP and OSPF routing. > I would also like you to share with me about netmap, whether it would only > work with IPv4, as I have been looking at the BSDRP 1992 changelog and it > contains the information netmap-fwd 0.2: IPv4 router over netmap for > FreeBSD. > netmap-fwd was a PoC, and isn’t usable compared to a standard routing stack. What is ServerU ? It just need NIC compliant with netmap, cf "supported devices" chapter in https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?netmap(4) Regards, Olivier
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