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From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: three new netmap tools: pcap player, link emulator, load
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On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:18:36AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> lb
>   a packet distributor that reads from a netmap port and distributes
>   traffic to multiple netmap ports, using ze​ro copy and a user-defined
>   hash function. This will be useful e.g. for people running multiple
>   instances of traffic monitors such as bro, suricata and the like.
>   It is not by chance that LB was originally developed by Seth Hall
>   at Broala, who kindly made it available, and Giuseppe Lettieri who
>   added a few features.

Do you performance test of this tool?
In my case, on my hardware similar code can rehash and forward only
about 6.5Mpps in one thread.