svn commit: r207643 - in head: sys/dev/cxgb usr.sbin/cxgbtool

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20100505193049.cd94c63e.nork at FreeBSD.org>
            Norikatsu Shigemura <nork at freebsd.org> writes:
: Hi np!
: 
: On Wed, 5 May 2010 00:41:40 +0000 (UTC)
: Navdeep Parhar <np at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
: >   Add support for hardware filters to cxgb(4).  The T3 chip can inspect
: >   L2/3/4 headers and can drop or steer packets as instructed.  Filtering
: >   based on src ip, dst ip, src port, dst port, 802.1q, udp/tcp, and mac
: >   addr is possible.  Add support in cxgbtool to program these filters.
: 
: 	Great news.  Do you have any schedule to implement ipfw(4)
: 	hardware acceleration? :-)

There's some embedded kit that has switches that can do limited
filtering as well, and there it would be a big win....

Warner