Messages in this thread | | | Date | 22 Jun 1999 23:04:38 +0200 | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Linux and Network Flight Recorder |
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mfisk@lanl.gov (Mike Fisk) writes:
>We have NFR working using Alexei's ring buffer code in conjunction with >the Linux kernel packet filtering.
There are _big_ differences between "we have it working" and "we have it working and it captures every package on a saturated 100 (1000) MBit interface.
mjr clearly stated what they need: zero-copy input BPF. It seems that some OS (namely *BSD) delivers this.
[...] >> Author: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@nfr.net> at Internet-SA >> Date: 99/06/21 11:21 PM
[...] >> Tell you what, smarty-pants. I'll give you $4,000 and a >> cool NFR T-shirt if you write a zero copy-per-packet >> input bpf emulation for Linux. Ok? I'll do one better than >> you can do: I'll put my money where my mouth is.
Kind regards Henning
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