svn commit: r243414 - user/andre/tcp_workqueue/sys/net

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 23 06:44:15 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:18:39AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
A> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org <mailto:andre at freebsd.org>> wrote:
A> >
A> >         Hello Andre,
A> >         you plan to introduce pfil(9) at layer2 as well?
A> >
A> >     We already have that in net/if_ethersubr.c for ethernet at least.
A> >
A> > Hmm have missed the addition of that one.
A> > I would have liked that with that hook all the special cases(bridge/netgraph/carp/... to go away.
A> 
A> Indeed.  Lets make it happen. :-)

It is impossible to convert netgraph to be a pfil, since netgraph isn't
just a function call. It doesn't return processed packet immediately.

The carp(4) isn't a layer 2 protocol, but is IP protocol, so I
don't understand how can it be converted to a pfil hook.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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