From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 15:44:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DFF106564A for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A288FC1A for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:44:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id SAA23138; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:44:37 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4E3C0FE4.2080200@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:44:36 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vlad Galu References: <20110805002732.GA5340@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <201108051628.19884.pieter@degoeje.nl> <20110805145626.GB13217@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4E3C0651.9070307@FreeBSD.org> <4E3C0D9E.40303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: High Network Perfomance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:44:41 -0000 on 05/08/2011 18:40 Vlad Galu said the following: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 05/08/2011 18:23 Vlad Galu said the following: >>> Netmap's scope may be narrow, but it's a great alternative to >>> proprietary implementations that are provided by only a handful of >>> vendors and tied to their hardware. I don't think Luigi foresees lots >>> of users either, but having it in the base system is a lot better than >>> not having it at all, IMHO. >> >> No doubt. >> >> On the other hand, it was a little bit misleading of Luigi to suggest netmap to a >> user who merely asked about tuning FreeBSD network (routing/firewall) performance :-) >> >> netmap can no doubt be useful, but perhaps let's not overhype it before it >> actually proves itself on practical tasks. Or has it already? I might have >> missed that. > > It's great for IDS/IPS, which is exactly what I'm using it for :) Oh, yes, haven't thought about this. -- Andriy Gapon