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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arp_filter patch for 2.4.4 kernel.
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 00:20:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF4FB57.BA55A651@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF4720F.35574FDD@candelatech.com> <15092.32371.139915.110859@pizda.ninka.net> <3AF49617.1B3C48AF@candelatech.com> <15092.37426.648280.631914@pizda.ninka.net>

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Ben Greear writes:
>  > No idea, haven't tried to use netfilter.  With this patch, though,
>  > it's as easy as:
> 
> I know, the problem is if some existing facility can be made
> to do it, I'd rather it be done that way.

Would requiring netfilter to be used slow down the fast path
for packets in any way?  The current arp-filter code will not,
as far as I can tell, and if the netfilter overhead is significant,
that may be a good reason to accept the patch, or the alternative
one proposed a few mails back...

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>          <Ben_Greear@excite.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-06  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-05 21:35 [PATCH] arp_filter patch for 2.4.4 kernel Ben Greear
2001-05-05 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2001-05-05 22:53   ` dean gaudet
2001-05-05 22:57     ` dean gaudet
2001-05-05 23:27       ` David S. Miller
2001-05-06  8:34       ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-06 16:35         ` Mark Hahn
2001-05-06  0:08   ` Ben Greear
2001-05-05 23:52     ` David S. Miller
2001-05-06  7:20       ` Ben Greear [this message]
2001-05-06  8:40       ` Andi Kleen
2001-05-13 22:39       ` Harald Welte
2001-05-07 16:35   ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-05-13  6:37     ` Ben Greear
2001-05-13  7:45       ` David S. Miller

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