From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 23:20:38 +0100
> But are you sure the hash table used for that would be strong enough > to handle the load? With RCU locking I think it is. > And what happens when a ifindex is reused? Then packets could end up > on the wrong interface. That might be a security issue. It is an interesting issue, but I don't think it's a real problem. For example, if the interface is downed, the route gets invalidated and that would prevent sending. The packet would go to /dev/null because of what we do in net/core/dst.c/dst_ifdown(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
