Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:59:51 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: archie@dellroad.org (Archie Cobbs), joe@tao.org.uk, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c ip_fw.h src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c Message-ID: <89834.982652391@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:56:10 PST." <200102200156.f1K1uQS42063@iguana.aciri.org>
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In message <200102200156.f1K1uQS42063@iguana.aciri.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >> > How much work is this? What does it buy us performance-wise? >> >> It would be somewhat slower because of the extreme modularity. >> But it would be more flexible, and possibly more robust and >> maintainable. Unfortunately it would also be a good deal of work. >> It would be a good exercise in networking programming though.. :-) > >... and maybe with a chance of improving existing code in the process. >As someone said, you don't get things for free, but... SMPng will cost os more network performance than a NGification would. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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