From: nick@snowman.net
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux_learning@yahoo.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: this code does not get called in dev.c so do we need it?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:14:10 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210031613500.12220-100000@ns> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021002.171042.42890215.davem@redhat.com>
I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, but why arn't there any in-tree
drivers with support for this? Is it too ugly to merge?
Nick
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> Fast routing, although not implemented in any in-tree drivers,
> does get used by some people who have hacked up drivers to support
> this.
>
> It allows IPv4 routing to occur right at the level of the device
> driver, it directly pushes an input packet to the output routine
> of the destination device all without leaving the driver.
>
> This code is used.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 14:02 this code does not get called in dev.c so do we need it? will fitzgerald
2002-10-03 0:10 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-03 11:13 ` will fitzgerald
2002-10-03 11:14 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-03 20:14 ` nick [this message]
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