Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:32:22 +0200 From: Marko Zec <zec@fer.hr> To: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Jacques Fourie <jacques.fourie@gmail.com>, "net@freebsd.org" <net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Send traffic to itself using real NIC Message-ID: <201208071832.23167.zec@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <20120807162028.GA22341@rdtc.ru> References: <50211DF0.2090607@rdtc.ru> <201208071633.11524.zec@fer.hr> <20120807162028.GA22341@rdtc.ru>
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On Tuesday 07 August 2012 18:20:28 Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Marko Zec wrote: > > There's no need to use epair at all here. Just create a vnet jail, and > > assign one of the igb interfaces into it, done: > > > > # jail -c name=x vnet persist > > # ifconfig igb1 vnet x > > # jexec x ifconfig > > lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > > options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM> > > igb1: flags=8842<...> metric 0 mtu 1500 ... > > That would be nice solution but jail(8) manual page says: > "a fairly complete file system install of FreeBSD is required" No, a separate filesystem is not required, that's a manpage bug. Just try the above 3 commands, they really work. cheers, Marko > and that seems to be pretty big overhead. Meantime, I'll try to think up > some kind of NETGRAPH mesh. > > Eugene Grosbein
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