From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 17 20:52:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72F94ECC for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37BAD102F for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1HKqFJx071226; Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:52:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <53027678.2020202@sentex.net> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:52:08 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: netmap, VALE and netmap pipes References: <1392661063.244494415.kh0fdlsv@frv34.fwdcdn.com> <20140217185832.GB41267@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <530273BF.5020303@sentex.net> <20140217205213.GC42021@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20140217205213.GC42021@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:52:15 -0000 On 2/17/2014 3:52 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:40:31PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >> On 2/17/2014 1:58 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:36:06PM +0200, wishmaster wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks, prof. Luigi. >>>> >>>> As for me, netmap-ipfw is especially interesting. Would you like add some examples for userspace bundle of ipfw and dummynet. Because not all clear in README-file. >>>> >>>> E.g. I have classic router with 2 interfaces igb >>> >>> replace the "vale" ports with "netmap:igb0" and "netmap"igb1" >>> and off you go. >> >> Apart from the man pages, is there a repository of documentation and >> examples somewhere ? > > not really. but apart from the plumbing into the interfaces, > this is just the FreeBSD/head ipfw code with obvious features Actually, I was thinking more in terms of netmap in general. eg. examples of how to use it as a high speed firewall or router, or packet generator etc. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/