From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 13:53:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7133106564A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:53:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lev@freebsd.org) Received: from onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:60a2::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 665DF8FC08 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lion.home.serebryakov.spb.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:923f:1:248b:b3cd:918d:d0d2]) (Authenticated sender: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) by onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A362D4AC1C; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:53:11 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:53:07 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <425884435.20110819175307@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: Pieter de Goeje In-Reply-To: <201108191401.23083.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <810527321.20110819123700@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201108191401.23083.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:53:13 -0000 Hello, Pieter. You wrote 19 =E0=E2=E3=F3=F1=F2=E0 2011 =E3., 16:01:23: >> > 3. Kernel features for complex network solutions (netgraph, carp, ipfw= ). >> >=20 >> > The niche for routers & traffic analysis is still ours. It would be >> > nice to take e.g. pfSense and agree with some vendor (Netgear, >> > D-Link, etc) to put on sale hardware with FreeBSD inside. >>=20 >> What about 10G routing? Here are reports about full-bandwidth 10G rout= ing >> on modern Intel NICs with Linux (and multi-core server), but I didn't see >> any such data for FreeBSD, and somebody says, that Intel drivers and >> network stack is not so good parallel in FreeBSD. > With regards to high speed packet forwarding and routing, check out this = work > by Luigi Rizzo: > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/ Yep, I know this work, but it is rather special, not out-of-box (ok, maybe with some changed tunables) routing solution with routing tables, some firewall, etc. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov