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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:02:51 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack. 
Message-ID:  <20011117000251.A13B93811@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3BF5A5D5.3D408744@vicor-nb.com> 

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Julian Elischer wrote:
[..]
> What is needed is obviously a 'per packet' storage location
> for those things, defined in a "per protocol family" manner.
> 
> Luigi has already tried this scheme by defining a 
> dummynet specific mbuf type that can  be prepended to the 
> front of packets. What I suggest is to extend this
> to defining a MT_PROTOSTORAGE. (or similar) mbuf type
> that generic networking code is educated to ignore,
> and that protocols can use to pass packet-specific state
> information from one place to another.

Uhh.. no thanks.  Whatever you do, do *NOT* abuse the mbuf system
for this.  We went to a lot of trouble (well, Garrett specifically)
to rid the stacks of this obscenity.  Do *NOT* generalize it and undo
it.  MT_DUMMYNET must die, not be propagated elsewhere.

If you want to have some general storage mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs
for it.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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