Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:51:09 +0200 | From | Roberto Nibali <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification |
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> Non-blocking netlink delivery is reliable, although you can overrun the > userspace socket buffer (this can be detected, however). The fundamental > issue remains: sending more data to userspace than can be handled.
Agreed.
> A truly reliable transport would also involve an ack based protocol . > Under certain circumstances (e.g. log every forwarded packet for audit > purposes), packets would need to be dropped if the logging mechanism > became overloaded. This would in turn involve some kind of queuing > mechanism and introduce a new set of performance problems. Reliable > logging is a challenging problem area in general, probably better suited > to dedicated hardware environments where the software can be tuned to > known system capabilities.
Thanks. I think we'll find a solution that will suit us best and if we have something we let the community know.
Best regards, Roberto Nibali, ratz -- echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc
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