(Luigi's page suggests posting here.) Very recent freebsd10 (r263256) 1) the manpage says "SEE TRANSPARENT MODE" but no such section exists.
2) the manpage refers to NR_RING_NIC_SW when I think it means NR_REG_NIC_SW. 3) No mention is made of access control. I think earlier documentation suggested that you had to run as root, but now it appears to work for any user that has rw access to /dev/netmap. Obvious I guess but just mentioning that access is controlled by the file system, not your uid. 4) epoll/kqueue has conflicting information. An early para says "... and standard OS mechanisms such as select(2), poll(2), epoll(2), kqueue(2)." But a later para says "epoll(2) and kqueue(2) are not supported on netmap file descriptors.". On the matter of transparent mode, it seems that all an application has to do to have a packet proceed up into the host stack is set NS_FORWARD in the ring flags. That's a super-nice feature as is netmap in general. 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"
