I have a little collection of networking features that may be of
interest. My patches are against 2.4.20... If anyone thinks any of
these are of interest, I will break them out and send them to the list
for review/inclusion...
1) send-to-self: Add an IOCTL that allows an interface to be configured
so that it will answer arps from other interfaces on the same machine.
Also tweaks ip-v4 a bit.
Allows: can send traffic from one interface to another interface on same
machine
over an external network. Tested with ipv4, may automatically work with
ipv6
too.
2) 802.1Q VLAN: Add an ioctl that can be used to verify that a device is
indeed
an 802.1Q VLAN device (no more relying on name or luck).
3) MAC-VLANs: (Upgraded patch that someone else sent me.) Allows one to
specify
VLAN-like devices based on source or destination MAC addresses (no extra
padding
in the ethernet frame.)
This requires a hook in the skb-rx logic, near where the bridging logic has
it's
hook.
4) Pktgen updates: Allows receiving (and accounting) packets & threading
changes. Also requires
a hook in the skb-rx logic. (Dave already said he didn't like it before,
and I
assume he still doesn't, but including it here for completeness).
Thanks,
Ben
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