Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:46:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, andre@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] RFC: allow divert from layer 2 ipfw (e.g. bridge) Message-ID: <44C93425.60001@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <44C92278.5000901@FreeBSD.org> References: <44C7B5E2.5080001@elischer.org> <200607271346.12491.max@love2party.net> <44C92278.5000901@FreeBSD.org>
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Christian S.J. Peron wrote: > Max Laier wrote: > >> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:35, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >> >>> This code is running on quite a few systems but in a very limited >>> environment that may not test all possibilities.. >>> >>> Does anyone have comments or suggestions as to changes that I might >>> make >>> for checkin into generic FreeBSD? It was originally written for 4.x but >>> with 6.x in mind. >>> It is now running on 6.1 and seems to be ok so far. >>> >>> Certainly I am interested in hearing from Robert and Luigi and I am >>> particularly interested in >>> what people think on how this will handle locking/SMP difficulies. >>> >> >> >> Instead of putting more special processing to every L2-entry point in >> the system, I'd prefer if we could finally get round to L2 pfil >> hooks. That would make it much easier to add such functionality in a >> common hook function and use it everywhere. >> >> > > I agree with Max here, I think it's time we look at getting together > pfil hooks for layer 2. I would be interested in doing the leg work > here if you guys are willing to review it. > The divert code changes are sort-of irrelevant to this discussion. it adds an ISR to handle divert input from L2.
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