From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 03:40:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D82F106568E for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmarlatt@rxsec.com) Received: from core.rxsec.com (core.rxsec.com [64.132.46.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE5718FC0A for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:40:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmarlatt@rxsec.com) Received: (qmail 93269 invoked by uid 2009); 6 Jul 2008 03:02:37 -0000 Received: from 10.1.0.239 by core.rxsec.com (envelope-from , uid 2008) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1102. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(10.1.0.239):SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 6.064556 secs); 06 Jul 2008 03:02:38 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-RXSEC-Mail-From: cmarlatt@rxsec.com via core.rxsec.com X-Antivirus-RXSEC: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(10.1.0.239):SA:0(-4.4/5.0):. Processed in 6.064556 secs Process 93146) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.0.239?) (cmarlatt@rxsec.com@10.1.0.239) by core.rxsec.com with SMTP; 6 Jul 2008 03:02:30 -0000 Message-ID: <48703855.2040503@rxsec.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:13:25 -0400 From: Chris Marlatt Organization: Receive Security User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Van Kerckhove , FreeBSD Net References: <4867420D.7090406@gtcomm.net> <48699960.9070100@gtcomm.net><20080701033117.GH83626@cdnetworks.co.kr><4869ACFC.5020205@gtcomm.net> <4869B025.9080006@gtcomm.net><486A7E45.3030902@gtcomm.net> <486A8F24.5010000@gtcomm.net><486A9A0E.6060308@elischer.org> <486B41D5.3060609@gtcomm.net><486B4F11.6040906@gtcomm.net><486BC7F5.5070604@gtcomm.net><20080703160540.W6369@delplex.bde.org><486C7F93.7010308@gtcomm.net><20080703195521.O6973@delplex.bde.org><486D35A0.4000302@gtcomm.net><486DF1A3.9000409@gtcomm.net><486E65E6.3060301@gtcomm.net> <2d3001c8def1$f4309b90$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> In-Reply-To: <2d3001c8def1$f4309b90$020b000a@bartwrkstxp> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Freebsd IP Forwarding performance (question, and some info) [7-stable, current, em, smp] X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:40:33 -0000 Bart Van Kerckhove wrote: > The netfpga site seems more or less dead - is this project still alive? > It does look like a very interesting idea, even though it's currently quite > linux-centric (and according to docs doesn't have VLAN nor ip6 support, the > former being quite a dealbreaker) > Just last Thursday they made another release so it certainly doesn't look dead. I've been following the project for awhile now to see where it's going to go. The lack of FreeBSD support isn't great but I doubt it's going to happen until someone steps up and makes it so. The same is likely true for VLAN support. So far it's primarily been a proof of concept from what I can tell and could be molded into any number of different applications with the appropriate support. Considering all high performance routing platforms separate the management and routing/switching into two (or more) different hardware sections it wouldn't surprise me at all to see this as the only real option to get some serious routing and firewalling performance out of i386/amd64 type servers. Throwing faster and faster cpus at it is only going to get you so far (re: opteron 2212 vs 2222). Even so, 1.1Mpps is a considerable rate. Regards, Chris