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Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:03:22 -0500
From:      Alex Newman <dolemite@psiu.dyndns.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Subject:    Re: Netgraph could be a router also.
Message-ID:  <20021109180321.GA559@unknown.nycap.rr.com>

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>I'm well aware of the Click Router project (which dealt with data at layer 3, not layer 4, BTW). 
But I could have for instance zebra taking care of the control plane and click working with the data plane right?

>Among other things, it rewrote the ethernet card firmware to get the packets per second rate up where it is. 
Wow that is crazy

>Netgraph is more comparable to Streams.  It does not support a "pull model", as used by ClickRouter elements, nor does it support the idea of flow (which, theoretically, could allow a two port card with shared memory avoid the PCI bus transfer overhead, the same way that the SiBytes card that Chris Demetriou had a hand in creating). 
So does that mean i couldn't use it for the dataplane like click?


Alex Newman 

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