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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:23:27 +0100
From:      Vincent Jardin <vjardin@wanadoo.fr>
To:        "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Recursive encapsulation could panic the Kernel
Message-ID:  <3DF63117003CB51E@mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr> (added by postmaster@wanadoo.fr)
In-Reply-To: <050301c2a5f2$fc52aae0$52557f42@errno.com>
References:  <3DF62DBD0032C2ED@mel-rta6.wanadoo.fr> <050301c2a5f2$fc52aae0$52557f42@errno.com>

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> In -current mbufs can be tagged (see m_tag* in sys/mbuf.h); this'll let you
> do what you want.  I've been slow to MFC them to -stable because there are
> some issues with copying packet headers that I want to resolve first.
>

I thought about m_ext too. I agree that the m_tag looks better. However, how 
do you plan to solve this copy of packets ?

Moreover, when the lower layer is an IPv4 or IPv6 stack, it would be nice to 
be able to send back an ICMP Unreachable and/or TTL expired. ;-)

Vincent

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