Hi, I was thinking of contributing some code to libpcap for
interfacing to the MTP PCI cards
(http://www.metanetworks.org/products/mtp.html).
These newly developed Ethernet cards can perform packet matching at 1G
(and soon 10G) wire-speed before they DMA the packets through the PCI
bus to the host.
On Nov 22, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Livio Ricciulli wrote:
The idea is to automatically translate the BPF expressions passed to
libpcap into MTP macrocode and load it into the card on the fly
___in_addition_to___ the normal BPF software matching.
By "BPF expressions" do you mean "BPF programs" or do you m
Guy Harris wrote:
On Nov 22, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Livio Ricciulli wrote:
The idea is to automatically translate the BPF expressions passed to
libpcap into MTP macrocode and load it into the card on the fly
___in_addition_to___ the normal BPF software matching.
By "BPF expressions" do you mean "BPF pr
On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Livio Ricciulli wrote:
How far is the current implementation from this architecture?
None of it has been done - the only way to be further from that
architecture would be not to have come up with that architecture.
Any change to support generating anything other than
Guy Harris wrote:
That obviates the need to design the expression tree representation (as
I'd like to be able to hand expression trees *not* constructed by
libpcap's parser to the filter installer, that should be designed well
enough to be usable and extensible as necessary), but does mean you'd
