Multiprocessing for network protocol stack

[Joseph Koshy]

> latest FreeBSD like 4.x or 5.x to get multiprocessor support. So I am
> trying to evaluate these options.

You must have already looked at the following presentation (it gives
a good overview of the stuff in 5.x):

   http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf

>  What parallelizing paradigm (Connection level parallelism / Packet level
> parallelism / processor per message / predictable parallel protocol
> processing) is implemented for network protocol stack (like TCP/IP) in
> BSD 5.x ?

What is "predictable parallel protocol processing"?