new version of polling for FreeBSD 6.x

fabient at netasq.com fabient at netasq.com
Mon Sep 10 05:11:45 PDT 2007


>
>   Fabien, since you have the necesary hardware to stimulate the
> FreeBSD box, would it be too much to ask you to run some packet
> capture tests with your polling implementation and the capturing
> interface set to IFF_MONITOR? The userland program should use pcap and
> simply increment a counter and spit out capture average once every N
> seconds. It would be very interesting to see how polling affects
> packet capture, with varying BPF buffer sizes.
>
>

If you have the bench application src i will try to do the test during my
next session.

Fabien





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