On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Takuya ASADA wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/9/5 Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com>: >> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I implemented Ethernet Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4), here's a detail: >>> >>> - Adding removing signature filter >>> On linux version of ixgbe driver, it has ability to set/remove perfect >>> filter from userland using ethtool command. >>> I implemented similar feature, but on sysctl, and not perfect filter >>> but signature filter(which means hash collision may occurs). >> [...] >> >> Linux also has a generic interface to RX filtering and hashing >> (ethtool_rxnfc) which ixgbe supports; wouldn't it be better for FreeBSD >> to support something like that? >> >> Ben. > > Linux implement it on ethtool command, what should we do? > Maybe a new option for ifconfig, or provide new command for it?
I for one would love to see this functionality built into ifconfig. Linux always seems to have one tool too many. There's ifconfig, iproute2, route, mii-tool and ethtool. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
