From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <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: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:27:41 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0209270122570.12511-100000@blackbird.intercode.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020925.224001.99456805.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> If you have things that must happen in a sequence to flow through
> your path properly, that's where the "stackable" bit comes in. You
> do that one bit, skb->dst = dst_pop(skb->dst), then your caller
> will pass the packet on to skb->dst->{output,input}().
>
> Is it clearer now the kind of things you'll be able to do?
>
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.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-26 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 22:41 [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification for Netfilter 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 [this message]
2002-09-26 20:52 ` David S. Miller
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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