✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for

this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python

on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of download bandwidth before packet loss starts

how cool is this?

async def run(self, args): if args.operation == "bridge": os_iface = OSNetworkInterface(args.interface) async def forward_rx(): async for packet in self.eth_iface.iter_recv(): if len(packet) >= 14: # must be at least ETH_HLEN, or we'll get EINVAL on Linux await os_iface.send([packet]) async def forward_tx(): while True: for packet in await os_iface.recv(): if not await self.eth_iface.send(packet): break async with asyncio.TaskGroup() as group: group.create_task(forward_rx()) group.create_task(forward_tx())
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