On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Pekka Nikander wrote:
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> That's one of the tricky parts with the current architecture.
> I have to somehow tag the packets going to the userland with
> both the interface and MAC address. The code is planned to
> do that, but I still don't know what's the cleanest way of
> passing this info to the userland. meta doesn't seem to be
> a possibility since it cannot be passed to the userland side;
> I'm reluctant of putting this info on the mbuf proper since
> it would result in quite ugly code. Suggestions?
>
metadata can theoretically be sent to the userland side of things using
the 'recvmsg()' system call if we defined
the correct way of passing the control information back and forth.
I have not done this yet because I didn't have a good example
of how it should be useful but this example you show is such a
case.
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> > Probably it should even be recognized by the TrustedBSD components,
> > talk to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for that.
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> I didn't get this one. What are TrustedBSD components, and why
> I should talk about that?
>
> --Pekka Nikander
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