Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 12:35:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements Message-ID: <199805011935.MAA00654@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 1998 20:58:33 %2B0200." <19980501205833.A655@fasterix.frmug.fr.net>
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> The fast forwarding stuff is useful for people using FreeBSD as a > fast router. It is modular enough that I ported it in 2 hours, and > I'm currently running it. Everything is in one file (ip_flow.c) > and you just need to add hooks calling it when receiving packets > from the interfaces. Works ok for me so far between PPP and my > ethernet (which doesn't say much about the performance improvement > :-)). I'll send the patches to the list soon. The only problem that > I see is that it clutters up the kernel even if you don't use it > (in NetBSD, it is compiled in only if you have the GATEWAY option, > but you can't do that in FreeBSD since it's a kernel configuration > variable). We should probably make it an explicit option but other > than that I don't see any reason for not taking it. I'm not sure that making it optional would be taking best advantage of it. If it's a standard performance-enhancing feature, we'd be best off adopting it as such, in line with our out-of-the-box philosophy, no? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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