FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve

[Adrian Chadd]

2011/8/19 Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org>:

>> 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.

It proves the basic idea. It exposed Luigi (and others, hopefully) to
the realities of doing 10ge line rate (small packet!) forwarding. It
shows you CAN do it with FreeBSD; someone just needs to take it and
run with it. The tools are there to get the basic job done.



Adrian