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Date:      Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:57:08 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [fbsd] Re: throughput and interrupts
Message-ID:  <20060819125708.B22972@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060819195336.GL57815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>; from jeremie@le-hen.org on Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:53:36PM %2B0200
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> <20060819195336.GL57815@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>

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On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:53:36PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 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.

Paolo Pisati is now a committer and hopefully will commit
that stuff when he will be done with his current SoC work

cheers
luigi

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