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Subject: Re: bridge + VLAN + netgraph
In-Reply-To: <200006210438.GAA04059@info.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jun 21, 2000 06:38:45 am"
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Luigi Rizzo writes:
> > We could then modify ether_input() to take the full mbuf, including
> > the headers (like NetBSD).  Drivers that want/need to optimize
> 
> I already suggested that, but no luck :(

I think this is a good idea too.. I didn't include it in the patch
a couple of weeks ago to avoid changing too many things at once;
this change is orthogonal from the BPF extraction stuff.

After all, you'd think a function named "ether_input" would take
an Ethernet frame as input..

-Archie

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