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From: Takuya ASADA <syuu@dokukino.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:11:37 +0900
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Subject: Re: Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4)
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Hi,

2011/9/5 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>:
> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I implemented Ethernet Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4), here's a detail:
>>
>> - Adding removing signature filter
>> On linux version of ixgbe driver, it has ability to set/remove perfect
>> filter from userland using ethtool command.
>> I implemented similar feature, but on sysctl, and not perfect filter
>> but signature filter(which means hash collision may occurs).
> [...]
>
> Linux also has a generic interface to RX filtering and hashing
> (ethtool_rxnfc) which ixgbe supports; wouldn't it be better for FreeBSD
> to support something like that?
>
> Ben.

Linux implement it on ethtool command, what should we do?
Maybe a new option for ifconfig, or provide new command for it?