On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cord...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> That's fine, it's a test tool, not a solution. It just seems that it gets > pushed as if it's some sort of real > world solution, which it's not. The idea that bringing packets into user > space to forward them rather > than just replacing the bridge module with something more efficient is > just silliness. > you might want to have a look at the VALE switch http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/ the upcoming version can attach physical interfaces to the switch and keep all the processing within the kernel. > If "pushing packets" was a useful task, the solution would be easy. > Unfortunately you need to do > something useful with the packets in between. > > there are different definitions of what is "useful": sources, sinks, forwarding, dropping (anti DoS), logging, ids, are all useful for different people. The mistake, i think, is to expect that there is one magic solution to handle all the useful cases. cheers luigi _______________________________________________ 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"
