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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Add PGM protocol support to the IP stack
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:26:37 -0700
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On 03/19/2010 02:53 PM, David Miller wrote:
> But I also don't consider what openpbm has to do right now to
> be all that much of a restriction.  You need privileges to
> add the protocol to the kernel, you need privileges to run
> the userspace variant, there is no real difference.

The real difference is if multiplex is needed between multiple
unprivileged users.

	-hpa