From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 19 17: 1:42 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8AB37B4EC; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1K0xuo02139; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:59:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102200059.f1K0xuo02139@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Archie Cobbs , Garrett Wollman , Poul-Henning Kamp , 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 In-Reply-To: <20010219235626.E8851@tao.org.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:59:56 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message