On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 05:44:43PM -0200, Evandro Nunes wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > ... > > >> i gues I am missing a piece of the architecture... > > >> > > > > > > ???probably yes :) > > > > > > kipfw em1 em2 connects the two interfaces to each other, keeping the > > > rest ??? > > > > > > ???of the host stack completely out of the game. > > > > > > > got it > > uhmmm... probably not, see below: > > > however it's still not counting any packets coming in or out of the > > interfaces > > > > > > > ???I am not sure where you are running pkt-gen (is it on a separate > > > machine ?) and what the 'em1' used in ??? > > > ??? > > > ???pkt-gen is connected to. > > > > > > > > > I am running one pkt-gen in TX mode on the same machine, and another one > in > > RX mode in a separate machine, but this is just for reference, to make > sure > > packets are actually getting transmitted, and it is... > > you cannot run two netmap clients on the same NIC at the same time > (unless you know how to do that, and avoid they stomp on each other). > > In this particular case it means that you should test things as follows > > machine A: pkt-gen -i em1 -f tx ... > > machine B kipfw em1 em2 > > machine C pkt-gen -i em3 -f rx > > And the connection between the ports is the following > > [A em1] <--> [em1 B em2] <--> [em3 C] > > cheers > luigi > ok this scenario will take a bit more time to create, Ill do it today so there is no way to filter a traffic generated by the same box, at least not right now, correct? one more thing, in this scenario you draw, should netmap-ipfw also filter host traffic? I mean, machine A pinging machine C instead of generating netmap-away traffic should be just like the same, right? thank you very much again _______________________________________________ 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"
