From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 9 10: 4:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D0E37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from web.internal.psiu.dyndns.org (alb-24-58-129-23.nycap.rr.com [24.58.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD1FA43E42 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dolemite@psiu.dyndns.org) Received: from alexultra.psiu.dyndns.org ([10.2.2.101]) by web.internal.psiu.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA9I4QtC088981; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:04:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dolemite@psiu.dyndns.org) Received: (from dolemite@localhost) by alexultra.psiu.dyndns.org (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gA9I3Vn01009; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:03:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:03:22 -0500 From: Alex Newman 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> Reply-To: dolemite@wuli.nu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message