From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:10:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6809423e656a160df11216ea5acc3d8b@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100803.001904.63020040.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:19:04 -0700 (PDT), David Miller wrote:
> From: Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
>> Rightnow, BPF is all but useless for parsing, say, IPv6. I only pick
>> IPv6 as one example, I'm sure there must exist a great number more
>> packet-based protocols that use a "linked-list" style approach to
>> headers. None of those are currently filterable on the current set of
>> instructions. LOOP would allow these.
>
> It's not meant for detailed packet protocol header analysis,
> it's for stateless straight line matching of masked values
> in packet headers.
David is right, BPF cannot - and will not - keep with any high level
connection tracking packet filter. There is an processing trade-off between
packet classification and packet storage with post processing analysis.
Hagen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 11:03 RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-02 11:13 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-02 20:16 ` RFC: New BGF " Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-03 5:18 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 7:07 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 7:19 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 9:10 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer [this message]
2010-08-03 13:40 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 9:03 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-03 7:18 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 5:13 ` RFC: New BGF " David Miller
2010-08-03 7:04 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 7:18 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 12:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-03 13:07 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 13:34 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 13:42 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:09 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 14:13 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:16 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 14:19 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 15:17 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 15:27 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:05 ` RFC: New BGF " Andi Kleen
2010-08-03 14:11 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:34 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
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