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Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification for Netfilt: msg#00262

Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] NF-HIPAC: High Performance Packet Classification for Netfilter
I missed the original post.  Is there a patch availble for testing?

Jim

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:27:41AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 

-- 
James R. Leu





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