Re: IPV6/KAME/protosw integration cleanup

[Julian Elischer]

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> 
> >Please note that the ip6protosw is ALSO very broken
> 
>         unfortunately, you are wrong.  yes, protosw is supposed to be
>         protocol-independent.  however, due to the nature of IPv6 extension
>         headers (you can have infinite number of them) you can blow the kernel
>         stack very easily.  therefore, we had to do ip6protosw.h.
>         please read my Usenix paper (on m_pulldown and mbuf issues in BSD
>         IPv6 support) two years ago.

I didn't say it could be easily fixed, and note that I am not touching it now..

> 
> itojun

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