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Date:      Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:53:36 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts
Message-ID:  <20060819195336.GL57815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <44E3A2C0.2020801@elischer.org>
References:  <200608151627.37828.root@solink.ru> <20060815130002.M45647@fledge.watson.org> <200608160959.23100.root@solink.ru> <20060816094944.GC820@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <44E3A2C0.2020801@elischer.org>

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Hi,

> >natd runs in userland so every packet has to be pushed out to userland,
> >processed and pushed back into the kernel.  The vast majority of the
> >overhead is the userland/kernel transition so natd gives you a basically
> >fixed pps rate.  Your throughput will vary depending on the packet size.
> > 
> >
> 
> in 6.1 there is an in kernel version of natd..
> 
> man ng_nat

What about the SoC 2005 project, aiming to push libalias down
into a kernel module ?  IIRC, there have been some patches
but I saw nothing commited.  This thread has stirred this
up from my memory.

Thank you,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >



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