From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Chris Leech <chris.leech@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
chavey@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_PACKET how to get the original netdev from a packet received from a bonded master
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:55:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4627D745.2000004@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41b516cb0704181902q646c4f9bvc34e79393ee974a3@mail.gmail.com>
Chris Leech wrote:
> Just to give you an idea of our motivation around this, we're looking
> at layer 2 configuration protocols implemented from user space.
I'd like to second the intent of this patch. We've been maintaining a
patch against 2.6.10 for a while now that exports the original ingress
device to userspace via ancilliary data. We use it in combination with
bonding.
Was never submitted to mainline because we're on an old kernel.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-19 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-18 23:05 AF_PACKET how to get the original netdev from a packet received from a bonded master Laurent Chavey
2007-04-18 23:25 ` David Miller
[not found] ` <41b516cb0704181652o6a05b570t511ee23373a0b3ac@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20070418.170749.07021824.davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-19 0:17 ` Chris Leech
2007-04-19 1:06 ` David Miller
2007-04-19 2:02 ` Chris Leech
2007-04-19 20:55 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-04-23 19:03 ` Laurent Chavey
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