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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:59:56 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c ip_fw.h src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c 
Message-ID:  <200102200059.f1K0xuo02139@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010219235626.E8851@tao.org.uk> 

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Josef Karthauser wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:23:56PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> >=20
> > Here's a proposal :-)
> >=20
> > Netgraphify the entire networking stack. Each interface is a node,
> > the local IP stack (or stacks) is a node, etc. Sprinkle liberally
> > with ng_ipfw(4) (or better yet, ng_bpf(4), allowing full tcpdump
> > style packet matching) nodes to suit.
> 
> How much work is this?  What does it buy us performance-wise?

In general, it will be a performance loss instead.  You dont get things
for free.

> Joe

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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