[Click] Fwd: [Xorp-users] click configuration under FreeBSD

[Eddie Kohler]

Alan,

The easiest way to get xorp running on FreeBSD is to use Xorp's support for 
the default FreeBSD kernel forwarding engine.  Don't involve Click unless you 
need to (because you are writing special code).

Eddie


alan yang wrote:
> hello,
> 
> wonder people can help shed some light on click support under freebsd.
> thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icsi.berkeley.edu>
> Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xorp-users] click configuration under FreeBSD
> To: alan yang <alancyang at gmail.com>
> Cc: xorp-users at xorp.org, xorp-hackers at xorp.org
> 
> 
> alan yang <alancyang at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> hello,
>>
>> under freebsd7, i am trying to config xorp click from within
>> config.boot file and have couple questions:
>> 1.  it says for freebsd it only need the click.ko for kernel click
>> module, but in click readme it says "FreeBSD 4.5 kernel module driver
>> not working" that actually the bsdmodule cannot build.
>> 2.  it seems xorp need click for FE plane, but without click.ko and
>> other driver, does xorp can really work under freebsd
> 
> Click can be run in either user-mode or kernel-mode.
> 
> If Click can work on FreeBSD in kernel-mode (which was the case when
> the XORP-Click support was added couple of years ago), then XORP
> will be able to use Click. You might want to check with the Click
> folks whether there is any recent activity of getting Click working
> on FreeBSD in kernel mode.
> 
> I guess Click will work in user-mode on FreeBSD so you can try this
> solution.
> 
> Pavlin
> 
> 
> 
>> thanks in advance for shed some light.
>>
>> alan
>>
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