Re: Getting netmap to co-exist with user-space processes that use sockets

2018-08-20 Thread VO Ipfix
Awesome, this was what I was looking for! Regards, Victor On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:39 PM Vincenzo Maffione wrote: > Hi, > What you want to do is definitely possible using the "host rings", aka > "sw rings". > The idea is that netmap intercepts all the packets arriving from the NIC > RX "hard

Re: Getting netmap to co-exist with user-space processes that use sockets

2018-08-17 Thread Vincenzo Maffione
Hi, What you want to do is definitely possible using the "host rings", aka "sw rings". The idea is that netmap intercepts all the packets arriving from the NIC RX "hardware" ring(s). Your netmap program should then look at the packets and decide which ones should be forwarded to the host kernel (

Getting netmap to co-exist with user-space processes that use sockets

2018-08-17 Thread VO Ipfix
Hello there, I would like to use netmap with pptk (emulated driver) to generate send traffic from an interface, but still allow rx/tx to get to the the kernel so that other user-space networking processes function as normal. Currently, if I open an interface eg netmap:eth0, other user space process