On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 07:58 -0700, San Mehat wrote: > Can you explain a good use-case for SOCK_RAW in this type of > environment? We were noodling it around locally and couldn't come up > with one that we needed to support. One that comes to mind is the case of Samir's app: youd need to handle some of the apps that ride on top of IP typically using SOCK_RAW eg ping, OSPF essentially anything on IP that doesnt have transport built into kernel etc; > > Q: If you want this to be transparent to the apps, who/what is doing > > the tagging of SOCK_HWASSIST? clearly not the app if you dont want to > > change it. > > The decision of whether to tag a socket or not is made by the 'hardware' As in some config interface? cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
