From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> To: jmorris@intercode.com.au Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, nf@hipac.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification for Netfilter Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:52:59 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <20020926.135259.62665945.davem@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0209270122570.12511-100000@blackbird.intercode.com.au> From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:27:41 +1000 (EST) So, this could be used for generic network layer encapsulation, and be used for GRE tunnels, SIT etc. without the kinds of kludges currently in use? Sounds nice. Such IPIP tunnels have very real problems though, since only 64-bits of packet quoting are required in ICMP errors, it is often impossible to deal with PMTU requests properly, see "#ifndef I_WISH_WORLD_WERE_PERFECT" in net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 20:54 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2002-09-25 22:41 nf 2002-09-25 22:52 ` David S. Miller 2002-09-26 0:10 ` Rik van Riel 2002-09-26 0:25 ` David S. Miller 2002-09-26 0:38 ` nf 2002-09-26 0:37 ` David S. Miller 2002-09-26 1:44 ` nf 2002-09-26 3:30 ` David S. Miller 2002-09-26 5:19 ` Rusty Russell 2002-09-26 5:40 ` David S. Miller 2002-09-26 15:27 ` James Morris 2002-09-26 20:52 ` David S. Miller [this message] 2002-09-27 3:00 ` Michael Richardson 2002-09-27 14:12 ` jamal 2002-09-28 1:30 ` David S. Miller
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