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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:31:14 +0530
From:      Charudatta Brahme <charooo@trishul.icil.co.in>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network Driver Programming
Message-ID:  <3770BE7A.3DD26D3A@trishul.icil.co.in>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221223550.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Hi Doug,


> Set promiscuous mode on the appropriate interface.  It sounds like you
> really want to use bpf.
>

Did set that. What's puzzling is - where is the input queue? Do I have to
schedule an isr
and then recv data in the isr?
I don't know how bpf works - any idea where I can lay my hands on ANY sort of

documentation?.


>
> > Where am I going wrong? Is there any other way of doing this?
> > ifconfig alias won't solve my problem as this virtual host has to
> > represent aroun 1024 hosts.
>
> Could you honestly host 1024 sites on one Ethernet without running out of
> network bandwidth first?  Or bottlenecking on all the I/O?
>

When I talk of hosting - it is specifically for some (stress) testing
purposes - and that too only ICMP echo replies.


>
> Doug White
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org



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