Quoting "Philippe Veillette (LMC)" <Philippe.Veillette@ericsson.ca>: > I will look at the code in more detail later but with a quick check i > am wondering if it's really necessary to clone the skbuff. (i > think that if we could possibly modify the skb later, then yes it > is), but the real question is, how can an skbuff be treated by two > or more different "stack". [snip] > i haven't check at what ptype_all is but why send it to the > ptype->func if > it's not of the same protocol type????? ptype_all elements are the registered network taps (like tcpdump). the second handoff is to the appropriate protocol handler (ptype_base), eg ip. The skb is shared only upto the point its not modified. A text search on the strings ptype_all and ptype_base will lead you to their populations :) thanks, Nivedita - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
