2009/2/11 erik quanstrom <[email protected]>: > On Wed Feb 11 07:27:47 EST 2009, [email protected] wrote: >> Devon got this working for him about a month and a half ago; see this >> message: >> http://9fans.net/archive/2008/12/501 >> I've still not made it work for me (on OS X), but i think the issues >> are actually in changes outside the ethernet stuff. I haven't had much >> time to dig in. > > it's been working well for me. i've been using etherrs (raw socket) > on linux. the pcap version didn't work very well for me. probablly > due to some linux misconfiguration. also, if you're looking to ping, > make sure that the filter compiled into etherve.c doesn't drop non-ip > packets. arp is not ip.
I fixed that issue some time ago; it turned out that the performance issue was something that is built into pcap to buffer packets for a certain time period. So there was always an additional 500ms latency on it because it was waiting that long before it returned its packet buffer up to the OS. I believe I also have the code in hg doing the right thing with the filter, as the pcap version did end up working for me. --dho > unfortunately, what you can't do is boot from a plan 9 fs. and since > 9vx requires many more cycles and much more memory than drawterm, > i've fallen back to that. a faster linux machine might have lead to a > different decision. > > - erik
