From owner-freebsd-net Fri May 1 13:40:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18156 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 13:40:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18119 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00654; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:35:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805011935.MAA00654@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Pierre Beyssac cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: NetBSD network code improvements In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 May 1998 20:58:33 +0200." <19980501205833.A655@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 12:35:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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