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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        "JINMEI Tatuya / ?$B?@L@C#:H?(B" <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFR: m_tag patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210161122540.82978-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021016111857.A38181@carp.icir.org>

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:07:07AM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / ?$B?@L@C#:H?(B wrote:
> ...
> > (I re-read the thread) perhaps the example in my previous message
> > wasn't good (and it was at least incorrect).  According to the
> > discussion on the thread, we'll probably keep m_tag_cookie being 0 and
> > use m_tag_id in (e.g.) ip6_output.c.  So, we'll be happy if this
> > convention is kept (and will be kept) at least under netinet6.
> 
> unfortunately this will not prevent code from having to check that
> the m_tag_cookie actually corresponds to the value you want, to
> make sure that your code does not misinterpret as own tags
> generated/destined to other clients.
> 
> Am I correct, Sam ?

yes but this is always done with macros, and the OpenBSD
compatible macros also check for the correct cookie value.


> 


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