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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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