Question about bridging code

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Jul 9 12:58:48 PDT 2003



On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> Julian Elischer wrote:
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> > how come no-one knows about netgraph.. the framework designed to do
> > exactly this? :-)
> > It's only been in use for 6 years..
> 
> Because we're missing a Nutshell book on the topic?  Because only
> initiates into the Dark Art of Whistling know how to use it? ;-)
> (NB: smiley.  You're not a humorless, literal-minded prat, but some
> of us are.)
> 
> Heck, Julian, I'd be using it right now if I had the time to
> figure out how to rewrite ng_one2many to handle something
> other than round-robin.  I'd like to fill the 256kbit/s
> frame relay to London before directing traffic over the VPN
> on our DS3, competing with all other traffic.  As an advanced
> exercise, I'd like to balance based on QoS, with low-latency
> traffic (VoIP, etc.) going over the frame link.



I have a netgraph node that does load balancing, but it's not completed
to my satisfaction..

you can play with it if you want :-)

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