On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Mark D <markd-freebsd-...@bushwire.net>wrote:
> (Hopefully this isn't too out-of-scope for this list..) > > I have an application in mind that I'd like to have accept/respond to > UDP queries sent to perhaps 30K contiguous IP addresses (most likely > IPV6 addresses because such ranges are easy to come by, but > conceptually ipv4 as well). > > This would all be on a small number of FBSD instances. > > Though it could be done, I don't really want to create 30K interfaces > and have the application bind 30K sockets as it's not clear if that > will scale if I try an address range that expands to, say, 1M IPs > wide. > > This address range would be internet-facing and responding to random > remote clients. > > My first thought is to use SOCK_RAW in much the same way that natd > does - at least to receive the traffic. > > Is that a sensible and viable approach or is there a better/easier > way? > > > Mark. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > How about firing up one of the firewall/pfil(9) consumers like (ipfw/pf) and adding rules to redirect traffic to a socket bound on loopback? -- Ermal _______________________________________________ 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"
