From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 13 13:53:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from willers.employees.org (willers.employees.org [128.107.241.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6905A37B417 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:53:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cjtt@localhost) by willers.employees.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with SMTP id fADLrSj16700 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:53:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:53:27 -0800 (PST) From: CJTT To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: zero copy and wire speeds Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Do you have to be running Current in order to use the zero copy sockets? If so, when will this make it to Stable? (I'm on 4.4). On a related topic, if trying to maximize the amount of traffic being sent on an ethernet card, how can you write your code so that you can try to make sure every packet gets put out on the wire? This is in a test lab so I'm not particularly concerned with something else receiving it correctly. select() really only guarantees that I can write 1 byte to the file descriptor, no? Thanks, CJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message