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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:02:54 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Victor Julien <victor@inliniac.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:52:18 +0200

> On 07/05/2011 09:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> I will add an option to the fanout, as a flag bit to the setsockopt,
>> that will cause the fanout to act as a ip_defrag() agent and rehash
>> the packet once all the fragments arrive.
>> 
>> Since this will operate internally on the clones passed to AF_PACKET,
>> it will not have any effect on the original packets traversing through
>> the machine.
>> 
> 
> Does this mean the user space app gets a reassembled packet from the fan
> out?

Yes.

Would you prefer to receive the frags individually?