From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 10 7:45:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930D614DDA for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA04767; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:45:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199911101545.QAA04767@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Ethernet TAP driver v0.2 released In-Reply-To: from "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" at "Nov 10, 1999 10:37:26 am" To: myevmenkin@att.com (Yevmenkin Maksim N CSCIO) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:45:21 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've released Ethernet TAP driver v0.2 for FreeBSD ... > Folks, what do you think about smart user-space Ethernet bridge? > Anyone needs it? i think performance is a big problem here (same as in the case of user-space natd, but worse because a bridge touches all packets). You have too many data copies. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message