On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello, > > this is a patch that switches entire IPv4 stack to network > byte order. That means, that at any layer any module should > expect IP header in network byte order. Any host byte order > values can be stored in local variables only and are never stored > into a packet itself. > > The new code brings clarity, since a developer doesn't need to > know which byte order should he/she switch a packet to when > passing it to a particular function in stack. Also, any new > function introduced should expect net byte order for a packet > supplied. > > The patch has been tested by me on amd64 and ray@ on mips. > TCP, UDP, ICMP, fragment reassembly and basic packet filtering > works okay. > > More testing is desired, especially on boxes using some extensions > as packet filters with policy routing, running gre(4), ipsec(4), > divert(4), gif(4), multicast routing, stf(4), ng_ipfw(4), SCTP, etc. > > Code reviewing also appreciated. It's not obvious to me, so does this change the byte order expected in packets sent from userland via raw IP sockets? Guy _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
