Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:53:58 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> 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: <200102200153.RAA00327@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20010219235626.E8851@tao.org.uk> "from Josef Karthauser at Feb 19, 2001 11:56:26 pm"
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Josef Karthauser writes: > > Here's a proposal :-) > > > > 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? It would be somewhat slower because of the extreme modularity. But it would be more flexible, and possibly more robust and maintainable. Unfortunately it would also be a good deal of work. It would be a good exercise in networking programming though.. :-) -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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