On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:50:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> System Administrators are probably more accustomed to well-known
> tools like ethereal/snoop/tcpdump that allows them to filter above
> info out from the wire. Are we trying to find out if/why the packet
> got all the way to ip's send routine, but didn't make it out to the wire?
> IOW info like the following:

I think the "threading the packet processing" idea is something that
someone interested in seeing _how_ Solaris handles TCP/IP will be
interested in.  But when you're trying to solve actual problems I
suspect it'll be something else that one needs.

BTW, is there some key that one can use as a key to an associative array
to track a single tcp "output" down to the network layer?  Some sort of
packet ID or STREAMS message ID, or something of the sort?

I really think that threading packet processing is just not a well-
thought out feature and not necessarily easy to implement with the
current infrastructure.  I don't think the project team should be
burdened with adding it.

Folks who need such tracing can rely on higher-cost associative arrays
and/or unstable fbt probes.
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