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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:57:06 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ermal_Lu=E7i?= <eri@freebsd.org>
To:        Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd>
Cc:        freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Best way for an app to accept traffic on 30,000+ interfaces?
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd> wrote:

>
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Ermal Lu=E7i <eri@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Mark D <markd-freebsd-net@bushwire.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> (Hopefully this isn't too out-of-scope for this list..)
> >>
> >> I have an application in mind that I'd like to have accept/respond to
> >> UDP queries sent to perhaps 30K contiguous IP addresses (most likely
> >> IPV6 addresses because such ranges are easy to come by, but
> >> conceptually ipv4 as well).
> >>
> >> This would all be on a small number of FBSD instances.
> >>
> >> Though it could be done, I don't really want to create 30K interfaces
> >> and have the application bind 30K sockets as it's not clear if that
> >> will scale if I try an address range that expands to, say, 1M IPs
> >> wide.
> >>
> >> This address range would be internet-facing and responding to random
> >> remote clients.
> >>
> >> My first thought is to use SOCK_RAW in much the same way that natd
> >> does - at least to receive the traffic.
> >>
> >> Is that a sensible and viable approach or is there a better/easier
> >> way?
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark.
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
> > How about firing up one of the firewall/pfil(9) consumers like (ipfw/pf=
)
> > and adding rules to redirect traffic to a socket bound on loopback?
> >
> > --
> > Ermal
>
>
> I fail to see how that's different from what I suggested with PF's rdr
> rule ?
>
> I never saw the e-mail in this thread!



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Ermal



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