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| From | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices |
| Date | 2015-11-16 23:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qvArE-4ME-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 21:55 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Sowmini, > > Neat. Though, in my case, I'm not actually just prepending a header. > I'm doing some more substantial transformations of a packet. And this > needs to work with v4 too. So I'm not sure implementing a v6 spec will > help with things. I need to identify the right mechanism inside the > kernel to assist with this, like, say, a member in sk_buff. There is very little chance we'll accept a new member in sk_buff, unless proven needed. Yes, it is very tempting and dozen of programmers already tried. You'll have to demonstrate full understanding of the stack and why other solutions do not work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2015-11-16 21:20 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-11-16 21:40 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2015-11-16 22:00 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> - 2015-11-16 22:10 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 23:30 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2015-11-17 03:50 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2015-11-16 23:30 +0100
Re: Routing loops & TTL tracking with tunnel devices "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> - 2015-11-17 04:00 +0100
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