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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:59:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:   dubious code in ip_output() ?
Message-ID:  <200101241859.NAA62672@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101241808.f0OI8cb09586@iguana.aciri.org>
References:  <200101241808.f0OI8cb09586@iguana.aciri.org>

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<<On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:08:38 -0800 (PST), Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> said:

> To me this seems incorrect because the firewall can drop the packet,
> divert it to a socket, maybe (not sure) change the output interface,
> pass it to a dummynet pipe, etc.

It's completely bogus (I had that argument with it at the time).
There is no predicting whether the interface queue will actually
accept a packet until you try to enqueue it.

-GAWollman

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