Re: zero-copy TCP fileserving

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:20:02 +0100 (BST)

> 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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