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A netmap-based packet layer for distributing and filtering traffic.
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SnabbSwitch #5

Open albertzaharovits opened 9 years ago

albertzaharovits commented 9 years ago

Hi Asim,
Can you please point the differences between your project and snabbswitch? They look very similar to me, though I'm no expert!

ajamshed commented 9 years ago

Hi Albert,

Apologies for the delayed response. I haven't gone through snabbswitch source code in a while but I think the major difference is that packet bricks uses netmap I/O driver along with netmap pipes to distribute traffic across applications. You don't need to spend a lot of effort configuring the application (you just need to load the netmap driver) and use netmap's libpcap library. End applications can then directly start receiving traffic at near wire rates.