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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:10:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), julian@elischer.org, ales@megared.net.mx, net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GRE Support in 4.X ???
Message-ID:  <200003012210.RAA65176@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200003012131.NAA71857@bubba.whistle.com>
References:  <200003012104.QAA64880@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200003012131.NAA71857@bubba.whistle.com>

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<<On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:31:27 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> said:

> What is your opinion about adding GRE support to the kernel?
> I.e., should we do it and if so how should it work?

> Should a process "bind" to a specific protocol? Should certain
> protocols that are already defined (like the above encapsulation)
> be handled automatically? Etc..

Yes.  I wouldn't be unhappy to see most of the work handed off to
netgraph modules if you can make it work that way instead, rather than
hard-coding everything.  (This seems like the sort of task that
netgraph is well-suited for; in order to do anything useful with these
packets we're already so far off the fast path that ILP is a distant
fantasy....)

-GAWollman

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