From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 27 3: 2:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE05937B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 03:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fARB29r27185; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:02:09 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:02:09 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt To: Rajesh P Jain Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BPF - Packet Reception In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011127120009.A21837-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rajesh P Jain wrote: RPJ> Thanks for all the replies. RPJ> RPJ> In linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. RPJ> RPJ> In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high performance device. RPJ> RPJ> So, Can anyone give an alternative way in FreeBSD (other than modifying the driver code), so that high packet-rate reception can be done by without dropping any of the packets ? man 4 ng_ether perhaps harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message