On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 3:37 PM Douglas Fischer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sounds good!
> But the question now a bit more complicated, and focused on FreeBSD
> architecture.
>
> That approach would not consume more resources than simple MultiFib?
>
> Dataplane being routed on a Jail would not stress the performance of the
> hardware?
>
> Jail/vnet shouldn't impact your forwarding performance, cf "chapter 3.c
Jail/vnet (VIMAGE)" on my old paper here:
https://people.freebsd.org/~olivier/talks/2018_AsiaBSDCon_Tuning_FreeBSD_for_routing_and_firewalling-Paper.pdf
The equivalent to DPDK is netmap, but it needs a user-land
forwarding-dataplane software, and I'm not aware of an opensource software.
There is a DPDK library on FreeBSD, but I'm not aware of
forwarding-dataplane running on FreeBSD using DPDK too.

Regards,

Olivier
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