netmap/pkt-gen error

Kurt Jaeger lists at c0mplx.org
Tue Aug 28 14:06:04 UTC 2012


Hi!

> hi again,
> i tired with v9.1RC1 but i still get the same error.
> 
> does Netmap support Broadcom interfaces??

> the supported interfaces on man page of netmap
> are em, ixgbe,re (only intel cards)..

Then bge is probably not supported.

> Is there some work going on regarding other nic's.
> 
> How can i still use pkt-gen to send/receive pkts.?
> any idea on how to run on virtualbox machine that
> might have an em driver??

You can use virtualbox to set up a freebsd guest on a freebsd
virtualbox host 8-) and then use netmap and em0.

But you probably have to compile a kernel with

device netmap

for this to work ?

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