On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Zygo Blaxell wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Patrick Schaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >To write a really proper one, requires reimplementing or reusing the > >TCP/IP stack. > > I disagree. [SNIP - sorry]
I well believe that you have a cunning plan to cut corners a lot. For some days, some time ago, I had me convinced that would be worth the effort, before the "Tux molestation" idea occured to me. Did you think about what to do once you find your string, while staying HTTP protocol conformant? Also in the context of keepalive connections with multiple requests, and always properly matching the URL and not some POST data? > >Yeah! And offloaded to the NIC, too, so it will be even faster, and > >not misuse the I/O busses. [...] > >:-) > > NICs aren't really faster. It's hard to find a NIC with two 2.0GHz > CPU's on it with 256K of L2 cache each. Most NICs I've seen would curl > up and die if they had to run anything as CPU- and memory-intensive as > netfilter at full line rate. :-) I'm well aware of that. I was exaggerating for purely rhetoric reasons. That's one of my hobbies. best regards Patrick
