Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:20:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Why do several prominent firewall and networking companies shun or speak foul of our > networking, saying we drop so many packets under load that linux simply isn't an > acceptable platform for their product? This is most recently in reference to
You mean one single vendor whose monitoring product is optimised for BPF and who hasnt considered writing a BPF module for Linux moans a lot.
Yeah SOCK_PACKET sucks in relative terms for high speed capture of packets. As to firewalls/routing 2.2 is fast. If we can get fastroute caching firewall rules in 2.3.x we'll really kick butt.
Alan
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