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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:23 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        itojun@iijlab.net, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, bmilekic@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ip_input.c patch
Message-ID:  <y7vu2ajhi9k.wl@condor.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:01:32 %2B0300" <20001011110132.D56373@sunbay.com>
References:  <200010110529.HAA85814@info.iet.unipi.it> <23730.971250366@coconut.itojun.org> <20001011110132.D56373@sunbay.com>

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>>>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:01:32 +0300, 
>>>>> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>> while i 100% agree that we should not swap bytes in ip_input,
>> we need to be very sure to preserve (strange) byte ordering constraint
>> in raw ip socket (IP_HDRINCL)...  so be careful.
>> 
> If noone objects, I will prepare the patch that avoids byte-swapping for
> ip_len and ip_off (I have recently done a similar thing for ip_id).

I don't necessarily object to the change, but we'll also have to note
about the change will affect some part of kernel IPsec code (at least
ah4_input() defined in netinet6/ah_input.c).

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp


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