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Subject: Re: Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4)
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On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Takuya ASADA wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> 2011/9/5 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>:
>> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> I implemented Ethernet Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4), here's a =
detail:
>>>=20
>>> - 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).
>> [...]
>>=20
>> 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?
>>=20
>> Ben.
>=20
> Linux implement it on ethtool command, what should we do?
> Maybe a new option for ifconfig, or provide new command for it?

I for one would love to see this functionality built into ifconfig. =
Linux always seems to have one tool too many. There's ifconfig, =
iproute2, route, mii-tool and ethtool.