Netmap in FreeBSD 10

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:41:55AM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote:
> 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 ??

the libpcap support is not committed yet.
you need to bring in the code manually (e.g. from
http://code.google.com/p/netmap/ ) or wait until i
merge it.