From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 15:14:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE4215779 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA33017; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:14:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Charudatta Brahme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Driver Programming In-Reply-To: <3770BE7A.3DD26D3A@trishul.icil.co.in> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Charudatta Brahme wrote: > > 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?. man bpf for starters, then prod the tcpdump source. > > 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. IP aliases don't necessarily ping, we've discovered. 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