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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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