On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Mikael <mikael.tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Henning, > > Thank you for your thoughtful response. > > 2014-10-14 11:02 GMT+02:00 Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de>: > > > * Mikael <mikael.tr...@gmail.com> [2014-10-14 10:24]: > > > NetMap (http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/) in OpenBSD would be a > > > great idea. > > > > > We kinda like our stack. > > > > Of course, OBSD has a very good stack as it is, but it has no NetMap > functionality i.e. there's no way for a userland application to do high > speed packet-level IO. > > > > > for what? > > > > There is a whole world of need of network monitoring and manipulation and > other specialized networking software. > > The benefit with doing this on OBSD is that it's more robust than other > systems and at least in my world that's hard currency. > > > > Chris got NetMap to compile on OBSD though I have no clue if/how well > present subsystems deliver for it. > > > Mikael > > IMHO netmap is for hypervisor, OpenBSD is not an hypervisor. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
