From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 01:46:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: www@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061F316A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:46:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from justin@primus.ca) Received: from smtp-06.primus.ca (mail.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B331343D48 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 01:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from justin@primus.ca) Received: from webmail.primus.ca ([216.254.136.41] helo=webmail-01.pvt.primus.ca) by smtp-06.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGnkZ-0004L8-LE for www@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:46:03 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Justin Randall To: www@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:44:14 -0500 X-Uidl: 114178225460951860 X-Mailer: AtMail 4.2 Message-Id: <20060308014604.B331343D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Project Idea: Improving Packet Capturing X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: justin@primus.ca List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:46:05 -0000 Hello,=0D =0D It would ba a great addition for FreeBSD packet analysis if there could be= a shared memory space between network driver and user space application. = Something along the lines of the PF_RING/libpcap+mmap()/rtirq_patch designe= d for the 2.4 linux kernel, which is well documented by Luca Deri from nTop= .=0D =0D Justin Randall=0D Service Platform Operations=0D Primus Telecommunications Canada