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On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> >
> > Some time ago the answer to this type of questions used to be
> > "use netgraph". Maybe it is also a valid option but i do not
> > know if there are modules that suit your need.
>
> part of me wonders whether having a netgraph style system for gluing
> together netmap things but in userland would be useful.
>

there is such a thing, it is called click

http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/
https://github.com/kohler/click/

and it does have netmap support
(i am about to push some updates).

cheers
luigi




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