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Subject: Re: Proposal for ethernet, bridging, netgraph
In-Reply-To: <39065497.237C228A@elischer.org> from Julian Elischer at "Apr 25, 2000 07:29:46 pm"
To: julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer)
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Julian Elischer writes:
> >   - If the 'eh' parameter to ether_input() is NULL, then don't
> >     do any of the link-layer stuff. This allows the existing
> >     optimization in the if_ed.c driver to work the same.
> 
> Also, not having the 'eh' available is going to make it kinda hard to
> work out what the ether_type is, is it not?

Oops.. uh, nevermind that idea.. :-)

Luigi really wants to keep the optimization, so something is needed..
I'll go back to the previous version.. which has the small disadvantage
that you may make two calls to bridge_in() when bridging..

-Archie

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