From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: new networking features Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:48:02 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3EBA9852.4030808@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I have a little collection of networking features that may be of interest. My patches are against 2.4.20... If anyone thinks any of these are of interest, I will break them out and send them to the list for review/inclusion... 1) send-to-self: Add an IOCTL that allows an interface to be configured so that it will answer arps from other interfaces on the same machine. Also tweaks ip-v4 a bit. Allows: can send traffic from one interface to another interface on same machine over an external network. Tested with ipv4, may automatically work with ipv6 too. 2) 802.1Q VLAN: Add an ioctl that can be used to verify that a device is indeed an 802.1Q VLAN device (no more relying on name or luck). 3) MAC-VLANs: (Upgraded patch that someone else sent me.) Allows one to specify VLAN-like devices based on source or destination MAC addresses (no extra padding in the ethernet frame.) This requires a hook in the skb-rx logic, near where the bridging logic has it's hook. 4) Pktgen updates: Allows receiving (and accounting) packets & threading changes. Also requires a hook in the skb-rx logic. (Dave already said he didn't like it before, and I assume he still doesn't, but including it here for completeness). Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear