Netmap in FreeBSD 10

C. L. Martinez carlopmart at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 09:41:57 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:30 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:19:28AM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  Is netmap enabled by default under FreeBSD 10 or do I need to
>>> recompile GENERIC kernel using "device netmap" option??
>>
>> you need to recompile the kernel (actually just the netmap
>> module and device driver modules if you do not have
>> them compiled in).
>>
>> I also suggest to update the netmap code to the one in head,
>> which has more features and bugfixes.
>>
>> cheers
>> luigi
>
> Thanks luigi, but from where do I need to download/update netmap?? And
> what about when I launch freebsd-update?? If I am not wrong,
> freebsd-update overwrite the code.

And another question. What about libpcap that comes out of the box
with FreeBSD?? Do I need to recompile ??

Thanks.


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