Netfilter on an IXDP-2400/2800

Netfilter on an IXDP-2400/2800

[Frank Meerkoetter]

Hello,

during the next 6 month i've maybe the possibility to play around with an 
intel network processor board [1].

The IXP-2400 is a processor based on the xscale architecture, running at 
600Mhz [2]. It contains among other things 8 io-processors, called 
microengines which are optimized for packet-processing. The setup will 
most probably have a quad gigabit ethernet card.

A first idea for a project was to modify the netfilter framework to make use
of the special hardware features of this platform.

Could someone please comment on the usefullness/feasibility of such a 
modification?

sincerely 
  Frank Meerkoetter

[1] an IXDP-2400 or even an IXDP-2800
[2] http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp2400.htm

Re: Netfilter on an IXDP-2400/2800

[Harald Welte]

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:04:11PM +0200, Frank Meerkoetter wrote:

> during the next 6 month i've maybe the possibility to play around with an 
> intel network processor board [1].
> 
> The IXP-2400 is a processor based on the xscale architecture, running at 
> 600Mhz [2]. It contains among other things 8 io-processors, called 
> microengines which are optimized for packet-processing. The setup will 
> most probably have a quad gigabit ethernet card.
> 
> A first idea for a project was to modify the netfilter framework to make use
> of the special hardware features of this platform.
> 
> Could someone please comment on the usefullness/feasibility of such a 
> modification?

Please contact Jamal (hadi@cyberus.ca), he has way more understanding
about such systems than I have [and is  believed to have done quite some work
in the direction you are heading].

> sincerely 
>   Frank Meerkoetter

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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