FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Pieter.
You wrote 19 августа 2011 г., 16:01:23:

>> > 3. Kernel features for complex network solutions (netgraph, carp, ipfw).
>> > 
>> >    The niche for routers & traffic analysis is still ours. It would be
>> >    nice to take e.g. pfSense and agree with some vendor (Netgear,
>> >    D-Link, etc) to put on sale hardware with FreeBSD inside.
>> 
>>   What about 10G routing? Here are reports about full-bandwidth 10G routing
>> on modern Intel NICs with Linux (and multi-core server), but I didn't see
>> any such data for FreeBSD, and somebody says, that Intel drivers and
>> network stack is not so good parallel in FreeBSD.
> With regards to high speed packet forwarding and routing, check out this work
> by Luigi Rizzo:
> http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
  Yep, I know this work, but it is rather special, not out-of-box (ok,
maybe with some changed tunables) routing solution with routing
tables, some firewall, etc.


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