From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 24 07:40:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05615 for current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 07:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05610 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 07:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA16281; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:40:34 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 10:40:34 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9608241440.AA16281@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in.h ip_fw.h ip_input.c ip_output.c In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < I suspect that Terry's point was that the hook mechanism need not be ip > specific. Rather, any communications stack, for example appletalk, could > use the same mechanism. I would anticipate that the filters would prefer to > do their "type checking" at registration time and only register for those > protocols that they are prepared to handle. Sounds like you're trying to make the IP processing path slower. This thread got started because there's already too much junk cluttering things up. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick