From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 17:14:25 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-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 4396CB74; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:14:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fruitcake.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (fruitcake.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU [192.150.186.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E19AFBDB; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (scone.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU [192.150.186.121]) by fruitcake.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.11) with ESMTP id s8NGY3ot009038; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: How do I balance bandwidth over several virtual NICs? From: Seth Hall In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:34:07 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <5421310C.5010406@FreeBSD.org> To: Luigi Rizzo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" , Adrian Chadd , Elof Ofel , "Alexander V. Chernikov" X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:14:25 -0000 On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I know the Bro developers (in Bcc so they can pitch > in if they like) have been playing with some > external traffic demultiplexer that reads from the > NIC (in netmap mode) and passes traffic to IDS > instances using VALE ports or netmap pipes, > all of which are compatible with the netmap-libpcap. We're trying to solve a lot of problems that people have with low level = packet handling for network monitoring. Not sure how much I have to say = about it quite yet, but the tool is called PacketBricks and can be found = here:=20 https://github.com/bro/packet-bricks One request we've been proxying through Luigi, but I'd like to push it = with more people is to get netmap compiled into the GENERIC FreeBSD = kernel. In my opinion it would be nice for FreeBSD to reclaim the = position of the best OS for network monitoring and I think that netmap = compiled into the default install would be fantastic. .Seth -- Seth Hall International Computer Science Institute (Bro) because everyone has a network http://www.bro.org/