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Date:      Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Renumbering IPPROTO_DIVERT
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210251751080.9065-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210260047.RAA01665@windsor.research.att.com>

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I think the right thing is to continue to steal the number for a
transition period


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Bill Fenner wrote:

> 
> >I think though that there should be a "compat" shim that
> >does the right thing but is VERY NOISY.
> 
> What's the right thing?
> 
> I think the right thing is to open a real raw socket.  If we are really
> feeling generous, print a message that someone used the old divert socket
> and if they meant to use the old divert socket they need to be recompiled.
> 
> (Recall that this silent failure mode is the same behavior that a
> DIVERT-using application sees if it is run on a kernel without IPDIVERT,
> so people should be used to it.)
> 
>   Bill
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