Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification for Netfilter

[James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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James Morris
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