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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem in calling ip_input()
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 "from deepika kakrania at Aug 29, 2000 05:50:41 am"
To: deepika kakrania <deepika_77@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:17:43 -0700 (PDT)
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deepika kakrania writes:
>  I have changed if_ethersubr.c slightly to support a
> new protocol. In ehter_output, an additional header is
> added for this protocol between ethernet herader and
> IP header.
> 
>   ethernet header|New protocol header| IP header|
> Transport layer header
> 
> In ether_input(), after doing neccesary checks for
> this protocol,the packet is assigned to ipintrq for
> normal ip processing in following manner.
> 
>  schednetisr(NETISR_IP)                               
>   inq = &ipintrq;
> 
>  Now for testing when i send some ping packets with
> this additional new header to a host(which supports
> this new protocol), i find that i get reply only for
> first packet after rebooting. For rest packets ,
> ip_input is not being called even after packets are
> enqued in ipintrq.
> 
>  Could anyone explain to me what can be the problem
> here?

Perhaps you called splimp() somewhere in your code and
forgot to call splx() (or something like that)?

-Archie

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