Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:44:10 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Pekka Nikander <Pekka.Nikander@nomadiclab.com> Cc: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch>, freebsd-net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> Subject: Re: A minimal IEEE 802.1x aka EAPOL implementation available Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111102341050.87870-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <3BECCBCF.60903@nomadiclab.com>
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On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Pekka Nikander wrote: > > > That's one of the tricky parts with the current architecture. > I have to somehow tag the packets going to the userland with > both the interface and MAC address. The code is planned to > do that, but I still don't know what's the cleanest way of > passing this info to the userland. meta doesn't seem to be > a possibility since it cannot be passed to the userland side; > I'm reluctant of putting this info on the mbuf proper since > it would result in quite ugly code. Suggestions? > metadata can theoretically be sent to the userland side of things using the 'recvmsg()' system call if we defined the correct way of passing the control information back and forth. I have not done this yet because I didn't have a good example of how it should be useful but this example you show is such a case. > > > > Probably it should even be recognized by the TrustedBSD components, > > talk to <rwatson@freebsd.org> for that. > > > I didn't get this one. What are TrustedBSD components, and why > I should talk about that? > > --Pekka Nikander > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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