state of packet forwarding in FreeBSD?

[Navdeep Parhar]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé
<olivier at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:48 PM, John Jasen <jjasen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> b) On the negative side, between the various releases, netmap appeared
>> to be unstable with the Chelsio cards -- sometimes supported, sometimes
>> broken. Also, we're still trying to figure out netmap utilities, such as
>> vale-ctl and bridge, so any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>
> I confirm that mixing netmap and Chelsio is broken on -current since about
>
> 6 month.
> We can't start 2 netmap's pkt-gen simultaneously as example.
>
> cf my report:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2016-December/094418.html

I think I fixed this a long time back.  Have you tried recently?  We
moved the netmap functionality to the vcxl interfaces and it should
just work.

Regards,
Navdeep