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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: RFC: consistent disable_xfrm behaviour
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:20:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45743CC1.1080904@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XMMS.LNX.4.64.0612041005260.4314@d.namei>

James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> 
>>disable_xfrm - BOOLEAN
>>
>>        Disable IPSEC encryption on this interface, whatever the policy
>>
>>Opinions?
> 
> 
> Looks good to me, wonder what the original rationale was, though.

Me too. It was introduced by this patch:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@3dcb777f4YjzKm-lG0COu5u-oTLEWA?nav=index.html|src/|src/net|src/net/ipv4|related/net/ipv4/route.c

which only mentions the loopback device, in which case it
doesn't matter.

Alexey, do you remember what the original intent of this was?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-04 14:59 RFC: consistent disable_xfrm behaviour Patrick McHardy
2006-12-04 15:05 ` James Morris
2006-12-04 15:20   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-12-04 16:52     ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-12-04 17:03       ` Patrick McHardy
2006-12-04 17:20         ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2006-12-05  3:59           ` David Miller

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