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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:33:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@boostworks.com>
To:        csg@waterspout.com
Cc:        archie@whistle.com, julian@elischer.org, pavel@alum.mit.edu, nsayer@sftw.com, luigi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
Message-ID:  <200004251632.SAA40157@luxren2.boostworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000425105926.A518@waterspout.com>

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On 25 Apr, C. Stephen Gunn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:14:44PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
>> OK, here's a patch ready for review & test.. this patch does one
>> thing, which is move the calls to BPF and BRIDGE'ing out of each
>> Ethernet driver and into ether_input().
> 
> Why not also modify ether_input() to remove the Ethernet header
> when appropriate?  Instead of the monkey business to add the Ethernet
> Header back on.
> 
> There are a couple of places in ether_input() that do this already,
> and you're proposing another for passing the packet to bpf.
> 
> I proposed this a few weeks ago, but never cleaned up my patch
> for submission.  <sigh>
> 
> It would certainly prevent some of the kludges to deal with the
> Ethernet Header for things that want a peek at it, like VLANs.
> 

That's correct. the patch break the bridging due to the ether header
ripping. It would be preferable (at least for speeding up bridging) to
adjust the packet after all bridging/BPF stuff.

RN.
ItM




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