Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:19:09 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPV6/KAME/protosw integration cleanup Message-ID: <3B76E4BD.45E83378@elischer.org> References: <20010812200929.C276E7BA@starfruit.itojun.org>
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Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>
> >Please note that the ip6protosw is ALSO very broken
>
> unfortunately, you are wrong. yes, protosw is supposed to be
> protocol-independent. however, due to the nature of IPv6 extension
> headers (you can have infinite number of them) you can blow the kernel
> stack very easily. therefore, we had to do ip6protosw.h.
> please read my Usenix paper (on m_pulldown and mbuf issues in BSD
> IPv6 support) two years ago.
I didn't say it could be easily fixed, and note that I am not touching it now..
>
> itojun
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