netdev - Re: [XFRM]: beet: fix pseudo header length value

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Message-Id: <20070423.223927.98861952.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:39:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	Diego.Beltrami@...t.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [XFRM]: beet: fix pseudo header length value

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:30:49 +0200

> [XFRM]: beet: fix pseudo header length value
> 
> draft-nikander-esp-beet-mode-07.txt is not entirely clear on how the length
> value of the pseudo header should be calculated, it states "The Header Length
> field contains the length of the pseudo header, IPv4 options, and padding in
> 8 octets units.", but also states "Length in octets (Header Len + 1) * 8".
> draft-nikander-esp-beet-mode-08-pre1.txt [1] clarifies this, the header length
> should not include the first 8 byte.
> 
> This change affects backwards compatibility, but option encapsulation didn't
> work until very recently anyway.
> 
> [1] http://users.piuha.net/jmelen/BEET/draft-nikander-esp-beet-mode-08-pre1.txt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied, thanks Patrick.

More fun rejects for the next net-2.6.22 rebase :-)))
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