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Date:      Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:41:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net bridge.c
Message-ID:  <20050703184013.U21939@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <200507031824.j63IO3Bs009536@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200507031824.j63IO3Bs009536@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> thompsa     2005-07-03 18:24:03 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sys/net              bridge.c
>  Log:
>  Check the alignment of the IP header before passing the packet up to the
>  packet filter. This would cause a panic on architectures that require strict
>  alignment such as sparc64, ia64 and ppc.

What's the route that a packet takes before it gets to the bridge?  If it 
goes through ether_input, it would make sense to put the alignment there 
when necessary.

By the way, which network drivers are not aligning to the ip header right 
now?

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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