Netmap Library not getting installed on custom kernel installation

[Vincenzo Maffione]

Il giorno gio 17 dic 2020 alle ore 15:18 Olivier Cochard-Labbé <
olivier at freebsd.org> ha scritto:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 9:53 PM Vincenzo Maffione <vmaffione at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On a side note, the netmap tools (pkt-gen, bridge, lb, etc.) should really
>> be a port. Another TODO item.
>>
>>
> There is already one port for an old version of pkt-gen:
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/pkt-gen/
>
> Thanks. I would however prefer to have a "netmap-tools" port, so that you
get all the basic applications at once. They are actually just 4-5, so it
is worth avoiding multiple ports.

And here is a custom port's patch to upgrade this port to a not-so-old
> version including a quick&dirty range bug fix (cleaner version
> fresh-from-today official netmap github), and adding a new option to
> prevent doing software IP & UDP checksum by default (because it consumes a
> lot of ressource on 40G or 100G NIC and Chelsio NIC are able to do hardware
> checksum in netmap mode):
>
> https://github.com/ocochard/BSDRP/blob/master/BSDRP/patches/ports.pkt-gen.patch
>
> I see. That should be pushed on the github (and then reflected on the src
tree).
The current netmap tools that live in tools/tools/netmap are actually
aligned with the github.

Thanks,
  Vincenzo


> Regards,
>
> Olivier
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