Julian Elischer wrote: [..] > What is needed is obviously a 'per packet' storage location > for those things, defined in a "per protocol family" manner. > > Luigi has already tried this scheme by defining a > dummynet specific mbuf type that can be prepended to the > front of packets. What I suggest is to extend this > to defining a MT_PROTOSTORAGE. (or similar) mbuf type > that generic networking code is educated to ignore, > and that protocols can use to pass packet-specific state > information from one place to another.
Uhh.. no thanks. Whatever you do, do *NOT* abuse the mbuf system for this. We went to a lot of trouble (well, Garrett specifically) to rid the stacks of this obscenity. Do *NOT* generalize it and undo it. MT_DUMMYNET must die, not be propagated elsewhere. If you want to have some general storage mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs for it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
