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From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
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Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Wilkinson,
	Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au>,
	"Support \(Rudy\)" <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding  performance (question, and some info)
 [7-stable, current, em, smp]
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Dear Steve,

> I'm curious now... how do you change individual device polling via sysctl?

not via sysctl, via ifconfig:
# enable interface polling
/sbin/ifconfig em0 polling
/sbin/ifconfig em1 polling
/sbin/ifconfig em2 polling
/sbin/ifconfig em3 polling

(and via /etc/rc.local also across reboots)

kind regards,
 	Ingo Flaschberger