Tinker <ti...@openmailbox.org> writes: > On 2015-12-26 19:23, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2015-12-26, Mohammad BadieZadegan <mbzade...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> I need a network packet generator that generates Network Packets with >>> the >>> HIGHEST Speed! >>> Before I migrate to OpenBSD I used PKTGEN on Linux to generate this >>> with >>> the highest speed level. >>> At this state I need one tools BUT on the OpenBSD. >> >> There's tcpbench (in base; does udp as well as tcp) or netblast (part >> of >> the netrate package). I don't think you will get anywhere near pktgen >> speeds >> though. >> >>> Is that netmap (http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/) useful in >>> OpenBSD? >> >> No. > > Stuart, what's your motivation for thinking so? - > > NetMap is a zero-copying high-performance ethernet frame IO API that > works via select() and ioctl on an FD and a linked list of memory > buffers. > > > Perhaps there are some X11-style weaknesses in the security model, but, > at least as an optional feature in an OS, what do you see that is not > perfect or reasonable about it (in particular in OpenBSD's current > absence of someting to fill the same function)?
It has already been discussed before on this mailing-list. Please read the archives. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&s=netmap -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
