On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Don Provan <dprovan at bivio.net> wrote:
> >From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz at 6wind.com] > >Subject: [dpdk-dev] removing mbuf error flags > > > >My opinion is that invalid packets should not be given to the application > and only a statistic counter should be incremented. > > The idea of an application that handles bad packets is perfectly valid. > Most applications don't want to see them, of course, but, conceptually, > some applications would want to ask for bad packets because they are > specifically designed to handle various networking problems including those > that result in bad packets that the application can look at and report. > Furthermore, it makes technical sense for DPDK to support such applications. > > Having said that, I have no idea if that's why that field was added, and I > don?t myself care if DPDK provides that feature in the future. I just > thought I'd put the idea out there in case it makes any difference to you. > If it were me, I'd probably decide it isn't hurting anything and not bother > to remove it in case some day someone wants to implement that feature in > one driver or another. > Yep. Pretty much any networking security product needs to see malformed packets. Jay
