Trying to make a Host into a gigabit hub for testing

[Shawn Saunders]

Actually, I think one2many is more appropriate.  I do not want the traffic 
that is coming in on the incoming ports to be echoed back to them, and isn't 
that what the ng_hub would do?

Shawn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gleb Smirnoff" <glebius at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Shawn Saunders" <saundersconsult at hotmail.com>
Cc: <dionch at freemail.gr>; <freebsd-net at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Trying to make a Host into a gigabit hub for testing


> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:31:15PM +0000, Shawn Saunders wrote:
> S> Chris,
> S>
> S> Now the traffic is going out all the ports, thanks.  Only one issue, is
> S> that it is also being echo'd back the em0 interface.  When I put this 
> under
> S> a full GIGABIT load, 6 interfaces feeding back what was just sent them,
> S> will kill my primary em0 interface.
> S>
> S> Is there a way to make the echo from em0 to all other interfaces only 
> go
> S> one-way, rather than em0 also being part of the group and receiving
> S> everthing it sends back again?
>
> I haven't yet understood the graph you built, but the Subject line
> tells me that you should use ng_hub(4), not ng_one2many(4) or ng_fec(4).
>
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