From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 19 17:54:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CDF537B491; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from curve.dellroad.org (curve.dellroad.org [10.1.1.30]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA43109; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by curve.dellroad.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00327; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200102200153.RAA00327@curve.dellroad.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> "from Josef Karthauser at Feb 19, 2001 11:56:26 pm" To: Josef Karthauser Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 17:53:58 -0800 (PST) Cc: Archie Cobbs , Garrett Wollman , Poul-Henning Kamp , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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