Re: Initialising networking protocol

2008-04-05 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
Dear Bruce, Seen ayame? http://www.ayame.org/ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2008-February/016815.html I think, Ryan already know this... bye, Ingo ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Initialising networking protocol

2008-04-05 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Julian Elischer wrote: Seen ayame? http://www.ayame.org/ looks like a stalled affort.. things stop in 2002 [greater-than] From what I've read of the code, it seems close to KAME and BSD style, and could actually get merged. With a little bit more work, the userland could slot into XORP's B

Re: Initialising networking protocol

2008-04-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am working on implementing MPLS in FreeBSD at the moment. I was wondering if anyone had some links to any references I could use, or recommend any books I can use to help me in that. Failing that, I am struggling with trying to work

Re: Initialising networking protocol

2008-04-05 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am working on implementing MPLS in FreeBSD at the moment. I was wondering if anyone had some links to any references I could use, or recommend any books I can use to help me in that. Failing that, I am struggling with trying to work out how to initialise my

Re: Trouble with IPFW or TCP?

2008-04-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Ian Smith wrote: I don't see why you think it's broken? Apart from obvious efficiency of having a check-state rule earlier, to get on with matching this packet against existing dynamic rules without wading through intervening rules, state is still only checked once; like it says, the O_PROBE_S

Re: getifaddrs() scalability

2008-04-05 Thread Jinmei_Tatuya
At Sat, 5 Apr 2008 18:50:34 +0200, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As such the getifaddrs() call is likely to get slow in that scenario, > > as it uses a linked list. > > I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. getifaddrs is the API to get > a complete and consistent snapshot of a

Re: getifaddrs() scalability

2008-04-05 Thread Max Laier
On Saturday 05 April 2008 16:37:04 Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Just off the top of my head... > ...has anyone run into problems with the scalability of this call? > > One of the XORP users needs to create »1000 interfaces in Linux, and > I'm wondering if any FreeBSD users need to create that amount of

getifaddrs() scalability

2008-04-05 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Just off the top of my head... ...has anyone run into problems with the scalability of this call? One of the XORP users needs to create »1000 interfaces in Linux, and I'm wondering if any FreeBSD users need to create that amount of network interfaces. As such the getifaddrs() call is likely t

Re: Trouble with IPFW or TCP?

2008-04-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > Not that I have known... keep-state does not (and never has) include > > > an implicit check-state. > > > > Sorry (and surprised!) to have to differ, but you MADE me read

Initialising networking protocol

2008-04-05 Thread frenchy
Hi All, I am working on implementing MPLS in FreeBSD at the moment. I was wondering if anyone had some links to any references I could use, or recommend any books I can use to help me in that. Failing that, I am struggling with trying to work out how to initialise my MPLS protocol in the netisr