Re: new ipfw/dummynet releases available (also netmap enabled)

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:01:10PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2012-08-13 13:06, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> >I have updated the ipfw/dummynet code for Linux, which should now compile
> >cleanly also on recent version of the OS. You can find it at
> >
> >	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/
> >
> >(dummynet is a packet scheduler/link emulator that works together
> >with ipfw, a flexible packet classifier).
> 
> The most important aspect you seemed to have forgotten: if it runs only 
> with ipfw, what relevance does that have to Linux?

As it says in the first line you quoted, the code includes
a linux version of both ipfw and dummynet.

The in-kernel version uses the netfilter hooks for packet I/O;
the userspace version (mentioned later in the message) uses netmap.

cheers
luigi
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