From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zenczykowski@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allow CAP_NET_RAW to setsockopt SO_PRIORITY
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:25:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111025.022546.1784159727449615100.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP3RGfdimCqGL=kdVQdYY0KHqVuVL3CL6arRh3EhdNhyrv9cw@mail.gmail.com>
From: Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:07:20 -0700
> A raw socket can already spew traffic, ie. packets, with any content.
> This includes VLAN tags and IPv4 TOS field, and IPv6 TCLASS field.
> These are the fields used for packet prioritization at switches and in
> the rest of network fabric.
SO_PRIORITY can control prioritizations that are not influenced
by packet contents.
There is a huge difference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-25 4:47 [PATCH] net: allow CAP_NET_RAW to setsockopt SO_PRIORITY Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-25 4:58 ` David Miller
2011-10-25 5:07 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-10-25 6:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-10-25 6:30 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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2021-11-23 20:37 Maciej Żenczykowski
2021-11-25 3:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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